An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded
ILSR's report shows how local communities can seize the opportunity presented by the American Rescue Plan Act’s funding to favor local, independent businesses.
ILSR's new report shows how civic leaders can use the American Rescue Plan to level the playing field and provide local economies with economic benefits.
A conversation between ILSR and Main Street America based on ILSR's new report outlining ideas for using American Rescue Plan money to support small businesses.
ILSR's Kennedy Smith moderated a panel about how cities can leverage federal recovery funds to revitalize their commercial districts, create small businesses, and reduce inequality.
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.
Stacy Mitchell talks to Strong Towns about how corporate power is concentrating during the pandemic, and possibilities for a congressional break up of big tech.
Small business funding is running out. Congress should address the crisis facing small business by quickly providing the resources local governments need to support them.
Stacy Mitchell joined an online discussion about the critical role policy plays for small businesses – especially given the confluence of factors in 2020.
Protect Our Restaurants, a new organizing campaign, aims to expose the unfair practices used by delivery apps to exploit small businesses, workers, and consumers.
ILSR's latest report describes 26 actions that community leaders can adopt to help small businesses weather the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
Data shows that a greater presence of big banks in a state correlates with fewer relief loans made to small businesses.
Stacy Mitchell talks to Canadian national radio about understanding Amazon’s structural power and its consequences, and about growing momentum in Congress to do something.
Wall Street-funded delivery services are taking a huge bite out of restaurants' meager revenues. Restaurant owners are desperate and furious — and cities are pushing...
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.