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Trump’s Trade War With Canada Could Spell Disaster For Senate Republican Candidates.

“There are strategic ways to use tariffs to crack down on unfair trade practices,” Liz Pancotti, vice president of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a liberal think tank, told HuffPost. “But going back and forth with Canada, which is a vital partner to our auto supply chain, is really not the way to do that.”

August 25, 2026 Huffington Post
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JD Vance Is Rattling the GOP’s Old Guard.

“Vance may try to distance himself from neoclassical economics on his press tours, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen any action from him that’s any different,” said Liz Pancotti, vice president of policy, advocacy and research at the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank. “He talks a big game, but falls to the exact same corporate interests that the party is beholden to.”

August 25, 2026 NOTUS
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GOP backlash grows to Trump’s beef price intervention.

"Trump is once again explicitly admitting his broad-based tariffs raise prices for Americans — and it's true from groceries to back-to-school shopping to buying a new home," Alex Jacquez, senior vice president of policy, advocacy and research at Groundwork Collaborative, said in a statement.

August 21, 2026 The Hill
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Families face higher back-to-school costs this year, report finds.

A new study by two progressive think tanks — the Groundwork Collaborative and the Century Foundation — estimates that a typical basket of school supplies costs nearly 8% more this year than last year. It’s an increase of roughly $12 per child. The organizations attribute the price hikes to the United States’ war with Iran and President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

August 21, 2026 Spectrum News
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Their finances were tough. Then came ‘insane’ back-to-school costs.

The cost of a typical school supply list – including notebooks, paper, pencils and glue sticks – is nearly $175, almost 8% higher than in 2025, according to an analysis by Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation, two progressive think tanks.

August 21, 2026 USA Today
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Some school supplies got costlier after tariffs. Parents are feeling the pinch.

The cost of school supplies has risen nearly 8 percent since last year, according to a report from the left-leaning groups the Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative, which pointed out that the makers of such school staples as Elmer’s glue and Sharpies and Expo markers, Mead and Five Star notebooks, and Logitech headphones have all spoken publicly about raising their prices because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported goods.

August 21, 2026 The Washington Post
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“Back to school” on a budget.

Liz Pancotti, vice president at Groundwork Collaborative, said she’ll be watching to see if consumers cut back on Halloween. “Are they having kids do it yourself with a sheet and cutting a couple holes out or are they buying a costume?” she said.

August 21, 2026 Marketplace
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FTC says “personalized pricing” based on consumer data could violate the law.

In December 2025, Consumer Reports and partners Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union investigated pricing practices employed by online grocery shopping service Instacart. They found that consumers paid different prices for the same goods from the same store at the same time.

August 20, 2026 CBS News
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Treasury Doubles Down on Its Plan to Stabilize Financial Markets.

“If we’re talking about kind of more permanently anchoring and lowering long-term bond yields, I think it’s going to be quite ineffective,” said Alex Jacquez, a senior vice president at the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative. “The market is incredibly right to be worried about what the president is going to do day-to-day.”

August 20, 2026 NOTUS
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Groundwork’s President and CEO Reacts to FTC’s New Personalized Pricing Enforcement Proposal

This morning, the Federal Trade Commission announced it is seeking public comment on an enforcement policy to curb corporations’ use of consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices.

August 19, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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