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Inspired by America’s original Sears Homes, Groundwork Collaborative introduces a direct-to-consumer approach to affordable, accessible homeownership.
In a paper published this week, advocates from the left-leaning policy group Groundwork Collaborative explored the history of the early-20th-century Sears home, ordered from a catalogue and delivered by mail, and proposed it as a model for a government-sponsored expansion of manufactured housing.
According to a study by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank, the cost of school supplies is up 11% this year. Families are expected to spend almost $4,000 per child for school items and lunches for the 2026-27 school year.
“Clearly, there has been interference and political posturing around what the administration is able to control,” said Jacquez, now with Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive think tank in Washington. “There’s still good progress going on, and I think there’s a lot to build on and to then learn from and not recreate exactly.”
Although ticket-selling platforms take a chunk of the profit from increased prices, performers rarely earn more even if consumers are paying higher prices. Nashville native, economist and author Lindsay Owens told The Tennessean there's a term for this split. "We're increasingly seeing what people like me refer to as a K-shaped economy, which is really just a story of the lower end of the market bottoming out, but the higher end of the market continuing to have a rapacious spending profile," Owens said.
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The thinktank Groundwork Collaborative noted that in 2024 in the U.S. "...prices for consumers rose by 3.4% over the past year, but input costs for producers increased by just 1%, according to the author's calculations, which were based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and National Income and Product Accounts."
The cost of a typical list of 21 basic school supplies rose 7.7 percent year over year, bringing the average basket total to $173.45 per student, according to a report by the Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative, both of them progressive economic and public policy think tanks.
"A K-shaped economy is generally described as one economy with two different experiences, depending on your income," Breyon Williams, chief economist at the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said in an email. "Top-income households pull away, seeing faster growth in spending, income and wealth, while lower-income households see slower growth in those areas."
Michael Strain, AEI Economic Policy Studies director, and Kitty Richards, Groundwork Collaborative senior fellow and former Biden Treasury official, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss July's CPI data, state of the economy, the Fed's rate outlook, and more.