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Six Small Business Issues at Stake in this Election

| Written by Stacy Mitchell | No Comments | Updated on Oct 31, 2012 The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/small-business-issues-stake-election-2/
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Balle, October 31, 2012

Occasionally we’ll be sharing our blog space with guest voices from the Localist movement. These are the best of the best, the most awesome of the most awesome, and the all-around most interesting people we know. Here’s our first guest blog post, by Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, who also recently presented a webinar on the impact that Local First campaigns have made over the last several years.

A number of critical small business issues are at stake in next month’s federal and state elections. Below we take a look at six of these issues.

Read the full post here.

About Stacy Mitchell

Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where she directs initiatives on independent business and community banking. She is the author of Big-Box Swindle and also produces a popular monthly newsletter, the Hometown Advantage Bulletin.  Connect with her on twitter and catch her recent TEDx Talk: Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to a Better Economy. More

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