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🚨SOON: Our @lindsayowens.bsky.social will testify in front of the @judiciarydems.senate.gov at 2:30 PM on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing. Today’s hearing concerns a simple, age-old principle: Americans deserve fair pricing. Don't miss this.
Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing | United States Senate Committee on the JudiciaryMeeting for Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on August 4, 2026 at 10:30 AMwww.judiciary.senate.gov46% of college graduates think AI will improve their job, but only 19% of workers with a high school diploma say the same. Like everything else in a K-shaped economy, AI's impact is unequal. Great news for the top, more pressure for everyone else. 🔗: groundworkcollaborative.org/work/ai-at-w...
NEW polling on AI in the workplace. Takeaway: workers aren't buying the hype: → 51% say AI will mostly benefit business owners & executives → Just 6% say most benefits will go to workers The benefits of AI in the workplace are not being split evenly.
AI at Work: Gains at the Top, Pressure for Everyone Else - Groundwork Collaborativegroundworkcollaborative.orgOnly 33% of American workers expect AI to improve their jobs, we & @ipsosus.bsky.social found. But the data skews depending on how much money you make. “This is really just yet another class divide for the American public,” our @alexsjacquez.bsky.social told @semafor.com.
Exclusive: AI exacerbates ‘class divide,’ progressive poll showsBlack workers are also more likely than white workers to predict AI will replace their job.www.semafor.comAmazon & Walmart are suppressing “Made in USA” results & even seem to favor 3rd-party imported listing through their AI search engines. @lindsayowens.bsky.social in @forbes.com: "This isn’t a tech glitch — it’s the business model. When fraud pays the platform, the platform protects the fraud."
Why Amazon And Walmart’s AI Shopping Agents Make ‘Made In USA’ Products Harder To FindA Columbia Law School study suggests Amazon and Walmart's AI agents hide American-made goods, enable false origin claims, while the AI agents admit it's a business choice.www.forbes.comFamilies are getting hit with a triple whammy from Trump: 1️⃣ His tariffs 2️⃣ His Iran war 3️⃣ This week's new tariffs on 99% of imports And the $166 billion in refunds that should've come back to them? Corporate executives are openly bragging about keeping it instead.
Refunds for Thee, Not for Me: CEOs Reveal How Businesses Are Cashing Refund Checks for Tariffs Paid by Consumers - Groundwork Collaborativegroundworkcollaborative.orgToday's GDP report is a snapshot of an economy under a ceasefire that no longer exists. The data doesn't lie: GDP growth has slowed and real disposable income has gone essentially nowhere in a year.
Growth Slows While Prices Remain High - Groundwork Collaborativegroundworkcollaborative.orgYesterday, the Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate steady, its 5th straight meeting without a move. For working families, this means no relief on mortgages, credit cards, or car loans. Trump’s reckless economic policies have done irreparable harm to families' budgets.
Warsh’s Fed Holds Rates While Trump’s Tariffs and War Keep Inflation High - Groundwork Collaborativegroundworkcollaborative.org"Parents do what they can to try to get their kids to school with the essentials." 50% of families are cutting back on household expenses & 45% are taking on debt just to get their kids to school with a notebook & a lunch. @lindsayowens.bsky.social in @cbsnews.com 👇
Families face higher costs as back-to-school season nearsU.S. households will spend roughly $4,000 per student on school supplies and lunches this year, a new analysis found.www.cbsnews.comBack to school prices — from blueberries to notebooks — are up this year. 50% of parents are taking on debt to buy school supplies, & 1.5 million kids lost their food assistance. @lindsayowens.bsky.social: "The work is getting harder of providing for your family." @19thnews.org with the scoop 👇
You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this yearFrom lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.loom.lyThis thread is excellent - but it’s somehow worse than you can imagine. What Trump is doing here is betting against Americans in the stock market. Let us explain how he’s doing this 👇
Dan PfeifferTrump does so much crazy, corrupt shit that things can get lost. Last week, Truth Social announced a truly breathtaking pay-to-play scam that will allow Trump and all of his rich friends to get even richer, while everyone else is left holding the bag. messagebox.substack.com/p/trumps-mos...
Walmart's leaders announced the number of users for the company’s AI shopping bot, "Sparky," jumped by 100% in the last quarter alone. The same Sparky that drove customers to spend 35% MORE than average. “It’s been a little surprising to me that there hasn’t been more conversation about this."
Lindsay OwensI enjoyed talking w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social for this incredibly important @politico.com story in MM, but loved reading it. @markwarner.bsky.social is clearly fired up about the potential harms of agentic commerce for consumers. This is a trillion dollar industry by 2030–Google has a Warner problem.