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Groundwork’s Bilal Baydoun on June PCE: “Chair Powell should stop delaying rate cuts”

"Twenty-three-year high interest rates are not warranted – they never were."

July 26, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Bilal Baydoun on School Lunch Junk Fees: “An egregious example of corporate profiteering”

“It’s imperative that we root out junk fees and stop pricing practices that prey on vulnerable families and focus on addressing the excessive corporate power that enables this gouging. The CFPB is doing just that.”

July 25, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens on FTC Pricing Investigation: “An important step in cracking down on the methods big corporations use to spy on consumers”

“Surveillance pricing isn't new, but new technologies like better data collection and smarter algorithms are turbocharging it and costing Americans a small fortune."

July 23, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork Names Mike Webb Deputy Director and Chief of Communications

An award-winning and widely-regarded communications strategist, Webb will manage Groundwork’s growing communications team and lead its efforts to tell new stories about how the economy works and who it should work for.

July 22, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Dr. Rakeen Mabud on Biden Admin’s Housing Actions: “An important step to check the greed of landlords”

“Across the country, tenants are being gouged by landlords who are exploiting a housing shortage to profit off of families' basic need for shelter. With today's announcement, the Biden Administration has answered the call from tenants and taken an important step to check the greed of landlords and give families some breathing room.”

July 16, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Bilal Baydoun on June CPI Report: “Bright green light for rate cuts”

“Today’s report is a bright green light for rate cuts. Prices are falling, and the Fed’s current stance is only hindering that progress. The Fed has all the data it needs to cut rates now.”

July 11, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Dr. Rakeen Mabud Ahead of Chair Powell’s Testimony: “Congress should be asking one question: Where are the rate cuts?”

“We’ve had nearly two years of falling inflation and zero inflation in May. Despite this progress, Chair Powell has kept interest rates at a 23-year high at the expense of families struggling with high borrowing costs. Congress should be asking one question: Where are the rate cuts?”

July 9, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Dr. Rakeen Mabud on Chair Powell’s Remarks: “The Fed has all the data it needs”

“Families feel the pain of high interest rates when they pay their credit card bill or enter the housing market. The Fed has all the data it needs when inflation has been falling from its peak for nearly two years. Chair Powell and his colleagues must rate cuts now."

July 2, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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TODAY: Poor People’s Campaign Hosts ‘Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. and to the Polls’

Impacted poor and low-wage workers, advocates, and moral leaders will share testimony and uplift the campaign's 17-Point Agenda of policies and demands, which have the power to eliminate poverty and low wealth

June 29, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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Groundwork’s Bilal Baydoun on May PCE Data: “Chair Powell shouldn’t waste any more time”

“With zero price growth in May for both CPI and PCE, there is no reason to hold back on cutting interest rates. Chair Powell shouldn’t waste any more time. Families need relief from high housing and borrowing costs now.”

June 28, 2024 Groundwork Collaborative
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