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As former Treasury official Kitty Richards said on CNBC last week, “Corporations are actually able to protect their profit margins and even increase their profit margins at times, using inflation and uncertainty as cover for price hikes, even if their costs aren’t going up.”
Today’s consumer sentiment report is an eye opener, revealing that consumers are increasingly worried about inflation with sentiment declining for the first time in four months. This troublesome report comes on the heels of new PPI data that shows everyday household items could get even more expensive.
“A lot of these more or less low-cost, mass-produced items are just simply not made in the U.S. so there are necessarily going to be price hikes on things like pencils and crayons and backpacks and things we just don’t make here anymore,” said Alex Jacquez, the chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank. “We are not going to move pencil factories back to the United States.”
August 16, 2025, marks the three-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act — a historic piece of legislation that lowered costs for American families, created good-paying jobs for American workers, and sparked an American manufacturing renaissance. The GOP proudly boasts about rolling back this monumental law — a move that has already had immediate and profound consequences for hardworking families.
New Analysis from Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation Shows Families Will Pay $160 More to Pack Lunch Boxes and 40% More for School Supplies, Thanks to Trump’s Policies
“That now represents about 24% of the total unemployed population,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive economic policy think tank. “And it's the most long term joblessness we've seen since the end of 2021 in some of that tail end of Covid-19 recovery.” Jacquez said much of the reason for the long-term unemployment is how businesses are responding to the economic policies of the Trump administration.
Today, President Trump nominated Dr. E.J. Antoni as the next Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
This week, President Trump sought higher ground in an attempt to hide from last week’s string of bad economic data.
The travel industry is turning dream vacations into budgeting nightmares for American families.
After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him. If his skin wasn’t thin enough already, he then had a meltdown in response to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s remarks on CNBC’s "Squawk Box." Warren rightly called him out for failing to live up to his economic promises and raised concerns that he would install “some sycophant who’s going to give data that makes the president happy” as BLS commissioner.