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Why the December inflation report could push back Fed rate cuts

“Housing is the last mile on inflation and the only way to fight it is by increasing our housing supply. Instead, the Fed’s high interest rates are making this crisis worse by forcing potential buyers back into the rental market and tanking the construction of new housing,” Lindsay Owens, a director of the economic policy advocacy organization Ground Collaborative, said in a statement.

January 11, 2024 The Hill

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Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens Calls for Immediate Rate Cuts Ahead of CPI Release

“For as long as we've been tracking this inflation data, folks have been saying that the cure for inflation is unemployment. The big story from 2023 is that was false."

January 10, 2024

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The Fed needs to ‘get out of our way here’ and start rate cuts, says Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens

Scott Lincicome, Cato Institute vice president of general economics, and Lindsay Owens, Groundwork Collaborative executive director, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the U.S. economy ahead of new inflation data later this week, the Fed's inflation fight, rate path outlook, and more.

January 9, 2024 CNBC

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Progressives Say ‘Absolutely No Reason’ Dems Should Help GOP Eviscerate Key Programs.

"Congressional Republicans aren't hiding the ball. They want to eviscerate funding for programs working families rely on and they are willing to shut down the government to do it," said Groundwork Collaborative executive director Lindsay Owens, a member of the ProsperUS coalition, in a statement.

January 4, 2024 Common Dreams

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Bilal Baydoun Previews December Jobs Report

“Tomorrow’s jobs report is poised to show the 23rd straight month of unemployment below 4% – a feat not achieved in decades. This data makes it clear: It’s time for Powell to course correct and pivot to rate cuts immediately or risk leaving workers and families out to dry."

January 4, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative

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Kitty Richards Joins Squawk Box to Discuss Jobless Claims, Fed Rate Cuts

“The data is very clear at this point that we have supply shock-driven inflation which isn’t at all surprising given that we just had an unprecedented global pandemic event.”

December 21, 2023 CNBC

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Are we out of the woods yet? What to expect from the U.S. economy in 2024.

"We have a fantastic labor market, we have rapid disinflation, and we have wages that are starting to pick up and keep pace with inflation again, and this massive wave of worker organizing and strikes and bargaining, and all of those are really great signs for American workers and families," said Kitty Richards, a former U.S. Treasury official and senior strategic adviser to the nonprofit Groundwork Collaborative.

December 21, 2023 Star Tribune

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Project Censored 2023: Corporate abuse and environmental harm dominate top 10 stories.

“Astronomical corporate profits confirm what corporate executives have been telling us on earning calls over and over again: They’re making a lot of money by charging people more, and they don’t plan on bringing prices down anytime soon,” the Groundwork Collaborative’s chief economist Rakeen Mabud said.

December 20, 2023 Detroit Metro-Times

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Lindsay Owens on the Fed, inflation

“Looking back on this year, we can now dispense with the myth that the only way to bring down prices is by sticking it to workers with layoffs and pay freezes."

December 20, 2023 Groundwork Collaborative

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New Frontiers for Empowering Workers and Business

And the Department of Labor is encouraging new ways for workers to be heard in the data that informs businesses and policymakers — including by signing a Memorandum of Understanding to work with the Groundwork Collaborative as they develop a new data source, the Worker Sentiment Survey — to capture workers’ experiences of the labor market and in the workplace.

December 19, 2023 Department of Labor