Popular Science: The US stinks at composting. Here’s how we can change that.
ILSR Composting for Community director Brenda Platt explains to Popular Science how we can make composting more ubiquitous in the United States.… Read More
The Atlantic: So Much for Cutting Out the Middleman
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
Fast Company: Amazon slams Amy Klobuchar’s Big Tech bill while monopoly critics slam Amazon
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
Statement from ILSR on New York Senate’s Passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act
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
Forbes: How Dollar General Is Spreading Like Hot Gossip In Tiny Towns Across The Country
ILSR senior researcher Kennedy Smith discusses how smaller communities tend to be most vulnerable to Dollar General expansions. … Read More
State Legislators Endorse Report Highlighting Urgency of 21st Century Antitrust Act for New York Small Businesses
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
Statement from ILSR on Alvaro Bedoya’s Confirmation to the Federal Trade Commission
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
Washington Post: Biden locks arms with telecom giants, riling allies
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