The new guidelines will likely make it harder for large corporations to amass power by buying other companies and will over time shape how judges understand and apply the antitrust laws in their rulings.… Read More
ILSR Composting for Community director Brenda Platt explains to Popular Science how we can make composting more ubiquitous in the United States.… Read More
Author Kathryn Judge uses ILSR data on the growing cost associated with doing business through Amazon, along with Amazon’s continued growth, to make the case that the internet created super-‘middlemen’ rather than cut them out.… Read More
In a 19-tweet thread, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell describes Amazon’s fearmongering about the American Innovation and Choice Online Act as “an absurd, desperate lie.”… Read More
In a statement, ILSR’s Co-director Stacy Mitchell responded to the New York Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act. “The New York Senate’s passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act is a win for New York’s small businesses, working people, and communities. For too long, dominant corporations have been allowed to corner markets and rig the game in their own favor.”… Read More
ILSR senior researcher Kennedy Smith discusses how smaller communities tend to be most vulnerable to Dollar General expansions. … Read More
A new report endorsed by state legislators highlights the urgency of the 21st Century Antitrust Act for New York small businesses.
As high inflation rages on, dominant corporations threaten the ability for New York small businesses to compete. Legislature can reverse this 40-year trend by passing the 21st Century Antitrust Act. … Read More
Alvaro Bedoya brings to the FTC deep expertise in the ways that monopolies in sectors like food, pharmacy, and tech are harming Americans and sapping the resiliency out of our economy and democracy.… Read More
Director of the Community Broadband Networks initiative at ILSR, Chris Mitchell, describes the shortcomings in Biden’s approach to the major telecom companies.… Read More
Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and similar chain dollar stores are targeting vulnerable communities across the US. Our new report details these companies’ rapid expansion, the growing resistance, and the pressing need for federal policy interventions.
Read the report, and find all of our resources and reporting on chain dollar stores here.
