Stacy Mitchell
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Portland, ME, United States
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New Report: The Dollar Store Invasion
In this report, we spotlight communities rising up against dollar chains and how federal policymakers need to address the ways in which misguided policies are fueling the destructive proliferation of dollar stores. → Read More
Statement on Alvaro Bedoya’s Call for Fairness Coincides With New ILSR Report on Robinson-Patman Act
Alvaro Bedoya brings to the FTC deep expertise in the ways that monopolies in sectors like food, pharmacy, and tech are harming Americans and sapping the resiliency out of our economy and democracy. → Read More
New Report: Amazon’s Toll Road
Amazon is exploiting its position as a gatekeeper to impose steep and growing fees on the small businesses that must rely on its site to reach the online market, our new report finds. Even as these exorbitant fees bankrupt sellers, … Read More → Read More
Congressional Testimony: How Concentrated Corporate Power Undermines Shared Prosperity
ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell testified before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday, July 14th. She spoke about how the U.S. has abandoned its antimonopoly policies, which has undermined independent businesses and the vital role they play in our … Read More → Read More
Fact Sheet: Why the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” is Essential Reform
Lawmakers cannot achieve their aim of restoring competition to our online markets without passing the structural separation bill. → Read More
New Fact Sheet: How Breaking Up Amazon Can Empower Independent Businesses and Revive American Entrepreneurship
Amazon is crushing independent businesses — and most Americans believe it needs to be reined in. In this fact sheet, we explain why Congress must act in order to check Amazon’s outsized power and allow small business to compete online. → Read More
New Fact Sheet: How Breaking Up Amazon Can Empower Independent Businesses and Revive American Entrepreneurship
Amazon is crushing independent businesses — and most Americans believe it needs to be reined in. In this fact sheet, we explain why Congress must act in order to check Amazon’s outsized power and allow small business to compete online. → Read More
Don’t Let Amazon Get Any Bigger
A damning congressional report about Big Tech helps make the case to break up Jeff Bezos’ empire. → Read More
Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth
Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that hundreds of thousands of small businesses must rely on its site to reach customers. In this report, we find that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to extract a growing cut of the revenue earned by these sellers. It's doing this by imposing ever-larger fees on them. This tactic is hobbling sellers and often dooming their businesses. It's also… → Read More
Stacy Mitchell’s Statement on Jeff Bezos Being Called to Testify Before Congress
Stacy Mitchell's statement in response to the House Judiciary Committee’s letter calling Jeff Bezos to testify.… Read More → Read More
Stacy Mitchell Discusses the Pandemic's Impact on Small Businesses on NPR's 1A
On National Public Radio's 1A, ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell talked about how the pandemic crisis is impacting small businesses and why the federal government's current response is inadequate. … Read More → Read More
Fighting for a Better Future: A Statement from ILSR on the Coronavirus Crisis
A statement from John Farrell and Stacy Mitchell, Co-Directors of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, on the COVID-19 pandemic. … Read More → Read More
What the Federal Government Needs to Do to Enable Small Businesses to Survive the Coronavirus Crisis
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance and dozens of national and local small business organizations, which are listed below, have put forward the following plan. Both the crisis and the federal policy response are evolving rapidly, and we expect to refine … Read More → Read More
Watch this FRONTLINE Trailer on Amazon's Reign Over Us — Featuring ILSR's Research
FRONTLINE has drawn on ILSR’s research and interviews with co-director Stacy Mitchell to create a powerful documentary on the reign of Amazon. → Read More
Statement on Sen. Warren's proposal to Break Up Big Tech
ILSR applauds Senator Warren’s plan to restore the balance of power in our democracy and revive competition by breaking up big tech companies. → Read More
Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back.
National dollar store chains are expanding in urban areas and small towns across the country, much like an invasive species, they are disrupting local communities. Some are recognizing the impacts these small-box stores have on access to healthy food and a vibrant local economy; the city of Tulsa, Okla. in particular, has become a nationally recognized leader in fighting the proliferation of… → Read More
8 Policy Strategies Cities Can Use to Support Local Businesses
This two-page policy brief, produced by ILSR for the Local Progress network of elected officials, looks at the problem of declining numbers of independent businesses, and offers examples of 8 policy strategies that cities and towns can use to better support locally owned businesses. → Read More
Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business: The Case for Restoring America's Once Robust Antitrust Policies
The United States is much less a nation of entrepreneurs than it was a generation ago. This report suggests that the decline of small businesses is owed, at least in part, to anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations. Drawing on examples in pharmacy, banking, telecommunications, and retail, it finds that big companies routinely use their size and their economic and political power… → Read More
After Three Decades of Neglect, Antitrust Is Back on the Democratic Platform
For the first time in 28 years, the Democratic Party platform calls for vigorous, stepped-up enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws. This remarkable shift in policy was made possible in part by the Bernie Sanders movement, but it’s also the product of years of advocacy by scholars and activists who believe that high levels of concentration in banking, retail, agribusiness and other sectors are… → Read More
5 Things Local Officials Need to Know About Amazon
Amazon is on a building spree, and many local officials are eager to bring one of its giant fulfillment centers to their own backyard. They are so eager, in fact, that some have resorted to offering the company lavish tax breaks and other public assistance. Between 2012 and 2014, Amazon picked up $431 million in local tax incentives to finance its warehouse expansion. Yet, as our analysis shows,… → Read More