INDEPENDENT BUSINESS INITIATIVE
The Case for Small Business
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Community Wins: In the Face of Consolidation, Communities are Opening Their Own Grocery Stores
Kennedy Smith
August 2, 2023
Communities are adopting innovative strategies to sustain their grocery stores or create new ones amidst the challenges posed by grocery sector consolidation. Some local governments are even creating a public option by operating grocery stores themselves. Here's how these places are ensuring access to fresh, healthy food.READ MORE
A Food Oasis in North Tulsa
Luke Gannon
March 16, 2023
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasisREAD MORE
In The Forge: We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key.
March 24, 2022
In The Forge Stacy Mitchell argues that we are in unprecedented moment to organize a broad popular front of small businesses and working people to change the course of corporate concentration.READ MORE
Video: The Progressive Fight for Small Business w/ Rep. Pramila Jayapal, White House Advisor Tim Wu, and Leading Advocates
Stacy Mitchell
January 31, 2022
In The Washington Post: Small Pharmacies Beat Big Chains at Delivering Vaccines. Don't Look So Shocked
Stacy Mitchell
February 5, 2021
On SiriusXM's Tell Me Everything, Stacy Mitchell Talks about the Importance of Small Business
Susan Holmberg
December 17, 2020
Now is the Moment to Advocate for Small Business: A Kauffman Conversation
Susan Holmberg
September 9, 2020
In The American Conservative: How a Rebirth of Independent Pharmacies Could Cure Rural Ills
Stacy Mitchell
November 6, 2019
Interview: In The Sun, Stacy Mitchell Discusses Amazon and the Future of Local Economies
Stacy Mitchell
October 25, 2018
In Book Review for Washington Monthly, Stacy Mitchell on "The Truth About Big Business"
Stacy Mitchell
July 24, 2018
Watch ILSR's Stacy Mitchell on Why Cities Need Independent Businesses
Stacy Mitchell
December 5, 2017
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Why We Can't Shop Our Way to a Better Economy: Stacy Mitchell's TEDx Talk
December 1, 2012
In this TEDx talk, Stacy Mitchell makes the case for a new phase in the local economy movement.READ MORE