Is Amazon Killing Jobs and Destroying Communities?
Co.Exist covered the release of our latest report on the dominance of Amazon across our economy in this piece from Ben Schiller. Their story covers some of our largest findings.… Read More
How Did Amazon Conquer American Retail? $760 Million in Public Money Didn’t Hurt.
ILSR is featured in this story from Slate on Amazon and the vast amounts of public subsidies they received that funded their sprawling empire.… Read More
Amazon’s Growing Stranglehold (Episode 6)
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Stacy Mitchell (no relation) ILSR Co-Director and Senior Researcher for the Community-Scaled Economies initiative about their latest report: Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities. Mitchell details the main points from the recent report including the startling fact that nearly $1 of every $2 spent online are spent on Amazon.… Read More
Media Outlets Cover 2016 Colorado Broadband Ballot Initiatives
On November 8th, 2016, 26 Colorado cities and counties joined 69 of their fellow communities in opting out of the restrictive, anti-municipal broadband state law, SB 152. For years, we at ILSR have been covering the developments in Colorado as voters reclaim local telecommunications authority. The media, both locally and nationally, took notice of our efforts.… Read More
Report: Amazon has ‘stranglehold’ on online retail market
ILSR is featured in this story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Amazon and the growth of their massive retail and economic empire.… Read More
Press Release: Report Presents New Data on Amazon’s Impact on Competition, Jobs, Economy
Amazon, the rapidly expanding company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, is undermining competition and reshaping the U.S. economy in ways that curtail opportunities for small businesses, reduce jobs and wages, limit product diversity and the choices available to consumers, and harm the economic and fiscal underpinnings of communities, according to a new report released today by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR).
The report, Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities, presents new data; draws on interviews with dozens of manufacturers, retailers, labor experts, and others; and synthesizes a broad body of previous reporting and scholarship. It’s available at https://ilsr.org/amazon-stranglehold.… Read More
Energy Democracy Media Roundup – week of November 28, 2016
This week in Energy Democracy news: With national energy policy stagnant (for the moment) states and cities are taking the lead in growing distributed generation and renewable energy such as new 100% renewable commitments in St. Petersburg, Florida and newly approved renewable projects in Greater Minnesota. Featured Stories: Why is green pricing a premium when wind … Read More
Indie toy store owner finds her place among big box stores
The Minneapolis Star Tribune covered independent retailers and the benefits of their presence in community. For this story, John Ewoldt cites our research in order back up his reporting.… Read More
Infographic: How Tariff-Based Inclusive Financing Works
See our full energy research hot spot to explore Inclusive Financing policies.… Read More