Groundwork Collaborative

Building an economy that works for all of us. #WeAreTheEconomy

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[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

🚨 NEW: Homeownership is slipping out of reach — especially for young Americans. The median-priced home now costs +$400,000. Something is broken.

Our new housing plan borrows an idea that helped families buy affordable starter homes more than a century ago: the Sears “house in a box.”

[Breyon Williams @BreyonWilliams]

Saying the labor market is frozen or in a “low hire, low fire” state is often discussed, and this visual really shows that it is.

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

“God bless the earnings call.” Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1) on how Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork) uses earnings calls to dig into business’s latest consumer exploitations.

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

Trump’s war in Iran and tariffs are pushing inflation. The Fed’s interest rate hike can only do so much to curtail it. Lindsay Owen (@owenslindsay1) explains. @Groundwork

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This level of greed is just gross. We need immediate regulations to stop this. It’s basically legalized scalping.

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

Watch our @owenslindsay1 on @jonstewart's @weeklyshowpod break down how corporations are using new technologies to rip you off.

Everything has shifted under our feet – watch now 👇

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

If prices seem to be going up by the minute, it’s because they often are. Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), is here looking at the ways tech is being weaponized against consumers’ budgets. New pod tomorrow!

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

Big thanks to @jonstewart for having me back on @weeklyshowpod to chat all things “Gouged” and the reinvention of the rip off.

“Gouged” is out on 9/29 and available for pre-order now: https://t.co/TjUDlDVcxA

Bookshop: https://t.co/d9aN7U7jXB
Amazon: https://t.co/NPLGt1t5sJ

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

“Economists love an auction. Americans trust a line.” Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), unpacks consumer sentiment around cost passthrough.

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), author of Gouged, explains how smart carts have made it easier to target specific consumers with higher prices. New pod out now! @Groundwork

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

People on the street can’t believe it, but it’s only a matter of time before your shopping cart knows more about you than your doctor.

Shopping carts tracking your heart beat, how long you linger in an aisle, and more could be coming soon.

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

If prices seem to be going up by the minute, it’s because they often are. Lindsay Owens (@owenslindsay1), President and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative (@Groundwork), is here looking at the ways tech is being weaponized against consumers’ budgets. New pod tomorrow!

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

Football fans are now stuck paying a lot more for less access to games.

To watch every football game, fans now need at least 10 different streaming services, and it'll cost them up to $900 a year.

Our @EmDiVito breaks it down for @DenverChannel.

[Breyon Williams @BreyonWilliams]

The Fed has never raised rates with consumer sentiment this low, until today.

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

We're all just trying to find the person who did this.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

Pre-order here or where ever you buy your books:

https://t.co/ujHcSVrt80

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

"Gouged" is just two weeks away, and we're not the only ones excited!

Washington Independent Review of Books has it listed first in their sneak preview list for this month. It's still available for pre-order and is out on bookshelves everywhere on September 29!

https://t.co/UdJxtAd5Jy

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

Our analysis says that this year the overall hike on school supplies is astronomical – 11%.

"On a typical basis, prices rise 2% to 3% per year and this is like five years of inflation rolled into one," our @ENPancotti told @ABC7NY.

That's a lot of families going without.

https://t.co/FivBXPIzSn

[Economic Speakers Bureau @econspeakers]

Wages aren't keeping up with costs, and working families are paying the price.

@BreyonWilliams broke down the numbers: paychecks are up 3.1% while inflation runs 3.7%. That gap means every paycheck buys less than it did a year ago.

[Elizabeth Pancotti @ENPancotti]

Suspending the federal gas tax would lower gas prices by about 13 cents and diesel prices by about 15 cents per gallon – a drop in the bucket (2-3%) when gas prices are at $4.33 and diesel is at $6.27.

The only meaningful way to lower gas prices is to end the war.

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

10-year Treasury interest rates rose to a nearly 20-year high today, amid pressures from the Iran war and ~$2T annual US deficits.

Diesel hit a new all-time high: $6.27 a gallon, per AAA.

[Groundwork Collaborative @Groundwork]

Trump's take on the economy is "the argument you make when you’ve run out of economic arguments. You saber-rattle about foreign adversaries, and you wax poetic about a bygone period of American manufacturing," @owenslindsay1 told the @washingtonsun.

https://t.co/1tqF0yFjOH