Local businesses provide many economic benefits, keeping more dollars in their communities than their corporate counterparts. On top of that, they help to define their communities.
Locally owned businesses play a central role in healthy communities and are among the best engines that cities and towns have for advancing economic opportunity and building resilient places.
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In The Nation, Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg suggest the Democratic Party return to its New Deal roots and embrace an agenda that explicitly supports small businesses rather than large corporations.
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Toledo’s Dorr Street is emblematic of what happened in cities across the country. Community leaders are charting a path for rebirth.
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Ron Knox talks to the "You're Probably Getting Screwed" podcast about the importance of small businesses and the challenges they face from corporate monopolies.
Stacy Mitchell explains why independent pharmacies are beating the chains in vaccine distribution. Small pharmacies have proved remarkably nimble, while CVS and Walgreens have stumbled.
Labor and small business were once natural allies in a New Deal coalition that backed muscular policies to limit corporate power and build a thriving...
In this virtual event, key leaders and advocates, including Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and White House Advisor Tim Wu, discuss the importance of small business to...
Small businesses are sometimes criticized as being bad for workers — but that idea is wrong. In this piece, we look at how small businesses measure up on concrete metrics like wages, finding that they often pay more than large companies. We also explore the importance of small businesses in keeping markets — including the market for labor — competitive, which gives working people more leverage.
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