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I helped expose the Instacart pricing scandal: These are the sneaky tactics used by brands like Uber and Starbucks, major airlines and even your landlord… and how you can protect your wallet.

When you next log on to your favorite grocery app to order food for the week, you'll probably assume the price you see on screen is the same price other shoppers will pay for their haul. You'd be wrong.

September 21, 2026 Daily Mail

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Seattle hopes to ban surveillance pricing at grocery stores. What is it?

A 2025 investigation by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found that Instacart grocery deliveries used an artificial intelligence pricing program to offer identical products at different costs, depending on the customer.

September 21, 2026 USA Today

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Federal Reserve rate hike reflects new world of sticky inflation and faster growth.

“The president can say he wants interest rates lower all he wants, and yet he continues to push the button on all the policies that raise rates,” said Elizabeth Pancotti, vice president of policy, advocacy and research at the progressive Groundwork Collaborative.

September 20, 2026 Associated Press

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Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services.

“This program did exist, it was overwhelmingly popular and successful, and then it was killed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump,” said Liz Pancotti, vice president of policy, advocacy and research at the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think-tank. “Why all of a sudden would their tune change?”

September 17, 2026 Washington Sun

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Reinventing the Ripoff with Lindsay Owens.

September 17, 2026 The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Working Families Foot Trump’s Bill Twice as Fed Hikes Rates for First Time Since 2023

President’s claim that his affordability crisis is “fake” does little to ease real economic pain facing Americans .

September 16, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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What Is This Bipartisan Data Center Bill Really About?

“It doesn’t really have much in the way of teeth,” said David Pomerantz, the executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute. Both Pomerantz and Grayson Flood, a senior fellow at Groundwork Collaborative, said that the bill’s toothlessness doesn’t mean it’s bad—just that it doesn’t actively change much. “It should be something that folks support,” Flood said. “Where I would push back is if it starts to be framed as: Well, we’ve done the thing and now we don’t need to do any more.”

September 15, 2026 The New Republic

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Digital shelf labels are supposed to save shoppers money. A new NJ law says they could do the opposite—and put a one-year freeze on them.

A recent report from the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union also claimed that Instacart’s AI pricing tool offers individualized prices on the same items.

September 15, 2026 Fortune

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Trump Officials Are Selling an Economy Americans Aren’t Buying. Sound Familiar?

“That’s the argument you make when you’ve run out of economic arguments,” said Lindsay Owens, the president and CEO of the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative. “You saber-rattle about foreign adversaries, and you wax poetic about a bygone period of American manufacturing.”

September 14, 2026 Washington Sun

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August CPI Report Shows Price Hikes Accelerating as Trump Brushes Off Working Families’ Affordability Worries

Paychecks no longer cover the basics as Trump drives up prices on gas, groceries.

September 11, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative