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With Healthcare Middlemen Controlling Prescription Drug Prices, There’s a Better Model for Pharmacy Care
There’s a small group of powerful companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, that increasingly controls the prices of prescription drugs. The results of this...
Local Governments Are Increasingly Buying from Amazon. Here’s Why They Need to Stop.
Local governments are increasingly turning to Amazon for their buying needs. When they do, though, citizens lose. Here’s why you should be concerned about this...
Anticompetitive Conditions Are Impacting Independent Businesses, Says Letter to Sen. Klobuchar
In today’s highly concentrated markets, the ability of dominant companies to exclude and impede businesses from competing has become one of the most pressing issues...
Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip on the Economy Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities
Amazon is at the center of increasing inequality and diminishing opportunity, and that it's concentrating power in ways that endanger competition, community, and democracy.
As the cost of leasing commercial space soars in U.S. cities, this report examines what's behind the skyrocketing rents and explores six possible policy solutions.
Independent Businesses Report Growing Sales and Hiring, but Policies Tilted in Favor of Large Companies Hold Them Back
The 2016 Independent Business Survey finds that independent businesses experienced brisk sales in 2015, but that biased policies and other obstacles are limiting their success.
New Studies Reveal 5 Reasons Policymakers Should Prioritize Local Business in 2016
Findings from researchers suggest that small, local businesses are critical to overcoming many of our biggest challenges, from reducing economic inequality to building resilient communities.
With New Wave of Mega-Mergers, the Big Aim to Get Bigger
Recent years have been record ones for mergers and acquisitions. While much of this concentration is invisible to most of us, its effects ripple throughout...
States Shower Big Companies with Economic Development Incentives, at Small Businesses’ Expense
Even when state economic development programs purport to be open to businesses of any size, in practice, they overwhelmingly favor large companies, according to a...
