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All About Inflation, Price Gouging, and the Banking Crisis.

My guest today is Dr. Lindsay Owens, the Executive Director of the Groundwork Collaborative. Widely known for her ability to communicate pressing economic concepts and arguments, Lindsay has been credited with changing the way we understand inflation, by leading the charge to expose—and articulate—the role of firm pricing power and corporate profiteering in price increases.

May 17, 2023 Affording Your Life with Attorney General Keith Ellison

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Progressive Senators Tell Biden: Prepare to Invoke 14th Amendment to Prevent Default.

"It's time for President Biden to step away from this slow-moving train wreck and use the authority he has under the 14th Amendment to avert default," Owens declared.

May 17, 2023 Common Dreams

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Republicans Use Sham ‘Debt Crisis’ to Force Cuts, set Biden Up for Blame.

“The president should not give into hostage-taking, and instead follow the lead of the majority of Americans who vastly prefer bringing in revenue through tax increases on the rich rather than making harmful spending cuts,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of Groundwork Collaborative.

May 17, 2023 People's World

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Biden and McCarthy Are Suddenly Getting Along in Debt Ceiling Talks. That Makes Progressives Nervous.

“Folks are worried about the direction that negotiations are headed in and in particular, the fact that the negotiations are starting to look a lot like 2011,” Lindsay Owens, an economist and executive director at the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative, told Semafor. “Anytime you let Republicans control the terms of the debate around the debt ceiling, you're in trouble.”

May 16, 2023 Semafor

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‘We’ve got a lot of work to do’: Biden and McCarthy Have New Negotiators But No Deal.

“The negotiations are headed in a pretty dangerous direction if the administration is ready to potentially agree to sizable spending cuts and other draconian poverty measures like enhanced work requirements,” said Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the progressive group Groundwork Collaborative, in an interview Tuesday before the talks.

May 16, 2023 Yahoo! Finance

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‘Absolutely Terrible Idea’: Jayapal Warns Biden Against Accepting GOP Assault on Food Aid.

"If the White House's position on the budget is that closing tax loopholes on the wealthy and corporations is preferable to kicking a bunch of families in the teeth with work requirements, sure seems like now would be a great time to let the public know that," Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, wrote in response to the Post's story.

May 16, 2023 Common Dreams

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‘Pretty Troubling’: Progressives Raise Concerns Over White House Comments on Spending Cuts

Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, wrote Thursday that Biden's remarks this week and growing talk of a deal on spending caps are "pretty troubling." Owens suggested the current negotiations are beginning to look like "2011-light," a reference to the last time the GOP used the debt ceiling as leverage to enact painful spending cuts.

May 12, 2023 Common Dreams

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Fast Federal Response to Pandemic Key to US Economic Recovery, Economists Say

Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, said lawmakers should take a similar approach in the future and focus on direct support to workers. “Workers are the backbone of the economy,” she said. “If our workers are home sick, we’re going to have to kick into high gear on the safety net again and the good news is we know how to do that, with student loans, the eviction moratorium, unemployment insurance, extended unemployment insurance for freelancers, child tax credits, and so on.”

May 11, 2023 Tennessee Lookout

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Debt Ceiling Meeting Between Biden, Congressional Leaders Postponed

“The president should not give into hostage-taking, and instead follow the lead of the majority of Americans who vastly prefer bringing in revenue through tax increases on the rich rather than making harmful spending cuts,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank.

May 11, 2023 The Washington Post

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JUNE 8-9: Leading Progressives to Lay Out Bold Economic Vision at EconCon 2023

This June 8 and 9, hundreds of leading experts, advocates, and policymakers will gather at EconCon 2023, the premier conference for progressives on the economy. Co-hosted by 14 leading progressive think tanks and influential advocacy groups, progressive leaders will come together to reflect on recent economic narrative and policy victories and chart the path forward for the progressive economic agenda.

May 11, 2023 Groundwork Collaborative