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The delayed September jobs report shows the United States added 119,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%.
Groundwork Collaborative, Local Progress Impact Lab, and State Innovation Exchange release a policy agenda with 10 recommendations on how elected officials can bring costs down.
When we elevate advisors who pal around with oligarchs — we shouldn't be surprised when this is the result," Lindsay Owens, executive director of the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative said in a statement. "This moment is an opportunity to rethink who should be making economic policy in this country."
“People are getting killed on the cost of living,” Alex Jacquez said. “These are real, structural, big-ticket items on people’s balance sheets that they’re struggling to afford.”
A recent Groundwork Collaborative analysis dives into the issue of price gouging at stadiums and proposes new so-called “street pricing” policies to curb these practices.
Corporate executives are quietly acknowledging what millions of Americans already feel: Trump’s economy is squeezing lower- and middle-income families while corporations enjoy record profits and the wealthy continue to prosper.
Groundwork Collaborative released a new resource describing how corporations use a growing arsenal of deceptive pricing tactics to squeeze American families and drive up record profits.
President Trump has finally figured out that the crushing cost of living crisis is sinking his Administration.
“The economic situation we face today is not one in which you’d expect the policy response to be direct payments,” said Alex Jacquez. Jacquez defended rounds of stimulus checks by the Biden administration as “fairly standard” for a recession like the one caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Central Bank, the IMF, the OECD and the European Commission, as well as the Economic Policy Institute and Groundwork Collaborative all published studies on how profits were driving inflation.