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Town Hall Featuring FTC Chair Lina Khan Draws Hundreds of Small Businesses

Town Hall Featuring FTC Chair Lina Khan Draws Hundreds of Small Businesses

Katy Milani

March 12, 2024

Hundreds of independent businesses from across the country tuned into a virtual town hall — featuring Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan — to mark the progress and build momentum to rein in monopoly power and level the playing field for small, independent businesses.  READ MORE


In The Atlantic: Amazon’s Big Secret

In The Atlantic: Amazon’s Big Secret

Susan Holmberg

March 1, 2024

Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace is enormously profitable. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell writes about how Amazon has kept these profits secret – and why the SEC must enforce corporate financial disclosure rules.  READ MORE


Chicago City Council Votes to Rein In Dollar Store Development

Chicago City Council Votes to Rein In Dollar Store Development

Susan Holmberg

February 21, 2024

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 dollar stores. Over 60 other cities and towns have enacted similar ordinances in recent years, but Chicago is the largest city to date to do so.  READ MORE


REGISTER NOW: Small Business vs. Monopoly Power—March 4th

REGISTER NOW: Small Business vs. Monopoly Power—March 4th

Katy Milani

February 15, 2024

Join independent businesses from across the country for a virtual town hall event to mark our progress and build momentum to rein in monopoly power and level the playing field for small, independent businesses.   READ MORE


In the Chicago Tribune: Why Chicago Needs to Limit Dollar Stores

In the Chicago Tribune: Why Chicago Needs to Limit Dollar Stores

Kennedy Smith

February 15, 2024

"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 ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith wrote in The Chicago Tribune in support of a proposal to limit dollar stores.  READ MORE


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New Research: Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth in 2023

New Research: Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth in 2023

Stacy Mitchell

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Why the Antitrust Revolution is Likely To Last

Susan Holmberg

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