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U.S. Job Market Plummets Under Trump’s Leadership: 70% Lower Job Growth, Unemployment Highest in Nearly 4 Years

The first jobs report after President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner for “rigging data” showed that regardless of who’s in charge of BLS, the U.S. job market is plummeting under President Donald Trump’s leadership.

September 5, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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Airlines lobby DOT to remove major passenger consumer protections

Lindsay Owens, executive director of progressive economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said that enacting A4A's requests would allow airlines to take advantage of consumers, and be a sign that other industries could do the same. "The airline industry has long been a pioneer in ruthless and deceptive pricing," Owens said. "Now they're seeking to self-enforce the consumer protections they have a long track record of violating... If key passenger protections are further rolled back, the signal gets even clearer: in the Trump Administration, polices that put corporate profits over consumer wallets are allowed to soar freely," Owens added.

September 4, 2025 The Points Guy

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As Miran Hearing Gets Underway, Groundwork Highlights How Trump’s Attacks on the Fed Will Drive Up Costs for Working Families

Today, the Senate Banking Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for Dr. Stephen Miran.

September 4, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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ICYMI: Groundwork’s Owens Joins CBS Evening News to Break Down Hertz AI Pricing Scheme

Groundwork Collaborative Executive Director Lindsay Owens was featured on CBS Evening News in a segment on how rental car company Hertz is using AI to squeeze consumers.

September 2, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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Trump Won’t Give America’s Working Families a Break this Labor Day

For over 130 years, Labor Day has been recognized as a federal holiday in honor of America’s workforce, but this year, American working families will not get a break thanks to the disastrous economic policies the Trump administration has enacted.

August 29, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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Wall Street is whistling past the graveyard as Trump infiltrates the Fed

“I think this is a real boiling-the-frog moment,” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, told me.“It’s hard to tell what would be the tipping point here … as long as the line is going up, everybody seems to be giving him a pass.”

August 27, 2025 CNN

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Groundwork’s Jacquez Slams Trump’s Politically Motivated Lawfare Against the Fed

Trump’s illegal attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook is nothing more than politically motivated lawfare to cover up his own economic mismanagement.

August 26, 2025 Groundwork Collaborative

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Donald Trump Gets Economic Warning Sign From Consumers

Alex Jacquez, Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, told Newsweek: "Consumer confidence is still well below the number that generally indicates an upcoming recession. Consumers expect prices to go up again after several months of easing, labor market expectations are souring, and recession fears are on the rise. No matter how many economic experts President Trump fires, he can't hide the bad economic news from consumers."

August 26, 2025 Newsweek

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Trump is trying to fire a Fed governor. Here’s what happened when other countries’ presidents did the same thing

"You look at Turkey, where, if you are introducing interest rate movements that shake credibility in the central bank, but then also ignore the actual economic conditions that we are in, these tend to go poorly overall," said Alex Jacquez, the chief of policy and advocacy at the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative and a former economic advisor in the Biden administration.

August 26, 2025 Business Insider

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When a president says a central banker is fired, but she’s not

“I spoke with Alex Jacquez… ‘All of these moves that Trump is making, that is shaking confidence in the U.S., is only going to drive up interest rates… which is going to filter through the rest of the economy and hit people in their mortgages and credit cards.’”

August 26, 2025 Marketplace