ILSR's Sean Gonsalves unpacks how the Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.
Ron Knox explores how state officials are continuing efforts to bring more access, opportunity, and affordability to their residents through expanded antitrust law and enforcement.
ILSR is named in a coalition effort defending full solar owner compensation for the solar energy they send to the grid that neighbors use.
In this article by Hannah Yasharoff, ILSR's Brenda Platt provides the argument residents should take to their local officials to implement locally beneficial composting solutions.
Cierra Noffke builds a story grounded in ILSR data that shows approximately 83 million Americans have Internet access through just one provider.
Stacy Mitchell provides context to the shifting realities of America as a nation of small businesses.
Christopher Mitchell explains the nuances of Texas' approach to handling the low-cost requirement attached to federal broadband funding.
Stacy Mitchell connects Pepsi's conspiring with Walmart to the decline of local retailers, the proliferation of food deserts, and rising grocery prices.
The failed Kroger-Albertsons merger offers the clearest proof yet that the new antitrust movement is breaking through.
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert.
How consumers pay for the sweetheart electricity deals given by monopoly utilities to tech giants on multibillion-dollar data center expansions.
Stacy Mitchell shared with The Times that residents of rural and lower-income communities, and the independent grocers that serve them are endangered by rampant consolidation.
ILSR's Stacy Mitchell argues that we must enforce fair competition in order for investments in locally owned grocery stores to really pay off.
ILSR's Chris Mitchell shares insights on the mission and vision of the Tribal Broadband Bootcamps he partnered in forming with Matthew Rantanen.
ILSR co-director, John Farrell, discusses his recent report on the costs imposed on society from granting private exclusive power over the public resource of electricity.