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Most Americans are stressed about high Thanksgiving prices, and are planning smaller gatherings as holiday staples soar by nearly 60%.
“Today’s delayed report shows troubling signs below the topline number: the underlying labour market remains weak, leaving working Americans with shrinking opportunities and rising insecurity. Month after month, the Trump economy is producing fewer jobs, more instability, and fewer pathways for families trying to get ahead,” Alex Jacquez said in a statement provided to Al Jazeera.
On the other hand, Alex Jacquez, a former economic adviser in the Biden administration who is now chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think thank, said today's report features "troubling signs below the topline number."
Kitty Richards, senior strategic advisor at the Groundwork Collaborative, says that numbers from the September jobs report released today are in line with overall labor market picture, but warns that the softening jobs market can 'go south' quickly.
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.