Lawyer Amy Turner joins John Farrell to explain how cities can use Inflation Reduction Act dollars to advance local goals — and should help their...
At the Future Cities conference, ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith moderated a panel discussion about how cities can leverage federal recovery funds to revitalize their...
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for states to require out-of-state and online retailers to collect state sales taxes. It’s an...
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case on sales tax collection that could — long after online commerce has transformed...
In response to Amazon’s announcement that it is seeking a location for a second North American headquarters, Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance...
For too long, public policy has rigged the market to favor big corporations and undermine small, locally owned businesses, especially those launched by women and...
Listen to ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell in a recent episode of the Strong Towns podcast, where she speaks about the origins of the big-box store, how...
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...
ILSR joined other members of the Advocates for Independent Business coalition in submitting a joint public comment letter in support of a landmark proposal to...
Despite an enormous commitment of public funding to support retail development, neither taxable sales nor retail employment has grown significantly in the St. Louis, a...
For years local business owners and their supporters in the Arizona legislature have tried to put an end to the massive subsidies that cities in...
Arizona Chain Reaction (AZCR), a coalition of nearly 600 independent businesses, has launched a campaign of phone calls and emails to urge state lawmakers to...
A new study documents more than $1 billion in state and local development subsidies that have flowed to Wal-Mart, and that figure likely represents only...
Typical of shopping centers built decades ago, Alameda Square in Denver is a cheap, single-story strip of stores. It’s ugly and rundown. But that does...
Does Wal-Mart Really Need Our Tax Dollars? by Stacy Mitchell Originally published on High Country News, December 1, 2003 Typical of shopping centers built decades...