Racial disparity is not merely an outcome of monopoly power, but a means by which corporations attain it. By identifying racial exploitation as a strategy...
Toledo’s Dorr Street is emblematic of what happened in cities across the country. Community leaders are charting a path for rebirth.
Toledo’s Dorr Street is emblematic of what happened in cities across the country. Community leaders are charting a path for rebirth.
ILSR’s Co-Executive Director Stacy Mitchell and American Economic Liberties Project’s Matt Stoller joined the Laura Flanders & Friends show to explain this pivotal antitrust moment....
In a new study, the Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household...
Dollar General is stealing from its customers. It’s a major scam that’s siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the poorest people in America. In...
Another city is fighting back against dollar chains. The Chicago City Council has voted to enact an ordinance that will limit development of new chain...
“Eliminating food deserts requires many solutions. But there is one absolutely essential action: preventing dollar stores from proliferating,” Tulsa City Council Member Vanessa Hall-Harper and...
The Small Business Rising coalition is playing a pivotal role in the push for stronger antitrust. … Read More
Watch the newly released English-language version of a powerful documentary about Amazon’s outsized power, both in the U.S. and abroad. The film, which first aired...
Kennedy Smith was on The Hustle to spell out why dollar stores are so problematic for our pocketbooks and our communities.… Read More
Stacy Mitchell explains why this pivotal moment in antitrust can last beyond its current leaders at our enforcement agencies. Her piece is part of a...
In Nonprofit Quarterly, ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith describes the federal Equitable Lending Leaders program and some of its biggest lessons.… Read More
Our tax system used to serve as a check on corporate power. Now it fuels market concentration and undermines the ability of small businesses to...
Local and federal policymakers have systematically structured tax policy in a way that deepens the concentration of corporate power, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg argue...