Innovative Research

Groundwork develops new tools, data, and research to reframe economic policy debates and tell different stories about how the economy works and who it works for.

Prioritizing Women and Families Over Deficits

In partnership with the National Women’s Law Center, Groundwork Collaborative developed a fact sheet and talking points emphasizing the need to raise revenues through more progressive taxation.

March 25, 2023

Experts Agree: Fed Braking too Hard, Likely to Cause a Recession

A growing number of experts across the political spectrum are sounding the alarm about the Federal Reserve’s misguided approach to taming inflation through aggressive interest rate hikes.

March 1, 2023

When Congress Negotiates on the Debt Ceiling, Americans Lose

As Republicans threaten to hold the debt ceiling hostage in their attempts to force painful and unnecessary cuts to important public investments, it is useful to look back to the last time Congress gave in to deficit fear-mongering.

February 3, 2023

2022 Credit Card Corporate Profiteering Findings

The Groundwork Collaborative released new research showing credit card executives bragging on corporate earnings calls about their record-shattering profits. Powerful corporations are raising prices and increasing their profit margins – while consumers are paying the price.

January 19, 2023

Sky High Rents Are Driving Inflation

As prices soar across the country, families are feeling the pinch at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and as they look at their monthly rent checks. In this brief, we lay out some of the basics of rent inflation: what it is, why we should care, and what we can do about it.

December 14, 2022

Q4 2022 Corporate Profiteering Findings

The Groundwork Collaborative released new research showing executives bragging on corporate earnings calls about their record-shattering profits. Powerful corporations are raising prices and increasing their profit margins – while consumers are paying the price.

December 7, 2022

Protecting the Profiteer

Groundwork Collaborative and Public Citizen released new research showing corporations and trade groups opposing anti-price gouging and profiteering bills blanketed Capitol Hill with nine times more lobbying power than the bills’ supporters.

November 3, 2022

Q3 2022 Corporate Profiteering Findings

Groundwork Collaborative released new research showing executives bragging on corporate earnings calls about their record-shattering profits. Powerful corporations are raising prices and increasing their profit margins – while consumers are paying the price.

October 25, 2022

The Roots of Discriminatory Housing Policy: Moving Toward Gender Justice in Our Economy

Safe, accessible, and afordable housing is a human right, and as such must be considered and invested in not as a commodity, but as a public good. Housing shapes opportunities for employment, education, health, transportation, and caregiving. A safe home, in a community full of opportunity, is a prerequisite to human flourishing and economic security.

August 15, 2022

Q2 2022 Corporate Profiteering Findings

Powerful corporations are using the pandemic as an excuse to raise prices and increase their profit margins – while consumers pay the price.

August 10, 2022
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