🚨SOON: Our @owenslindsay1 will testify in front of @SenJudiciaryGOP & @JudiciaryDems 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.
46% 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.
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
@ENPancotti: "The benefits of AI in the workplace are not being split evenly."
Only 33% of American workers expect AI to improve their jobs, we & @ipsosus 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 told @semafor.
Read about it here!
Amazon & Walmart are suppressing “Made in USA” results & even seem to favor 3rd-party imported listing through their AI search engines.
@owenslindsay1 in @Forbes: "This isn’t a tech glitch—it’s the business model. When fraud pays the platform, the platform protects the fraud."
We've been working with @Ipsos for the past year to study worker attitudes. This morning we released our first set of findings.
Workers are bracing for the impacts of AI rather than embracing them, as they expect the tech to deepen existing inequality in the workplace.
for some reason our (otherwise excellent) intern class this summer isn’t on X the everything app, but we’re looking for Posters this fall.
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A huge thank you to our amazing summer interns! Your work has been invaluable, and we wish you all the best in what's next.
Sohum, Charlotte, Natalie, and Kaylee: thank you for everything!
Real private wages down 0.4% over the year, first annual decline since 2022, according to BLS’ latest Employment Cost Index report.
Cory Doctorow on @weeklyshowpod breaks down how surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination are affecting working families right now.
Some companies are running experiments to see what the highest price or the lowest wage you'll accept.
Watch now 👇
Families 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 $166B in refunds that should've come back to them? Corporate executives are openly bragging about keeping it instead.
Half of American parents plan to take on debt to get their kids back-to-school supplies this fall, according to a study from @Groundwork.
The report found that the upcoming school year will cost families close to $4,000 per child.
That's 11% more than last year.
Today'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.
Our new analysis with @TCFdotorg finds families will have to spend a lot more this year on school supplies — well above the rate of inflation.
@owenslindsay1 explains the reasons why for @scrippsnews.
