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As Groundwork Collaborative noted in a paper last March, publicly funded stadiums were supposed to serve a civic purpose, not exist as walled-off playgrounds for the powerful.
As the World Cup takes up temporary residence in American cities this summer, FIFA has embraced a familiar opportunity: permission to price-gouge. Ticket prices for soccer’s premier tournament have in some cases topped $80,000. FIFA insists its hands are tied, blaming domestic market conditions.
Research conducted by Consumer Reports, in association with Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union, found that customers could be charged up to 23% more for the same item ordered from the same store at the same time.
Alex Jacquez writes: Yet outside the lines, the business of sports has separated from what we love about the games. As our economy has been defined by soaring inequality, the rising cost of living, the suppression of workers, and the financialization of everything over the last half-century, those same extractive and exploitative practices have crept their way onto the field of play. It wearies fans, stresses family budgets, shortchanges players, and generates a backlash reminiscent of politics rather than athletics. If America bounces back from this dark period of cronyism and oligarchy, it might actually start with our collective rage against the corruption of sports.
New Data for Progress polling that Groundwork Collaborative shared with MM found broad support for Trump’s plans to cap credit card rates and bar institutional investors from the single family housing market.
Today, Groundwork Collaborative and Data for Progress released new polling showing nearly two thirds (64%) of Americans say the way to lower housing costs is to rein in corporate landlords and institutional investors.
This week, despite pressure from the White House, the Federal Reserve paused cuts to interest rates amid clear signs the economy has lost steam.
Lindsay Owens is the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a nonprofit progressive think tank that’s been instrumental in making “surveillance pricing” — the practice of using algorithms to set prices for individual consumers based on their personal data — into a national policy concern.
Today, President Trump announced that Kevin Warsh will be his pick for Chair of the Federal Reserve when current Chair Jay Powell’s term concludes in May.
Today, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%.