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Chain dollar stores’ poor labor practices have gotten Congress’s attention. In April 2022, Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, asked the CEOs of ...

Danny Caine. Picture this hypothetical with me. Your community is home to one of the country’s premier manufacturers of ballpoint pens. This local business has long been a community anchor, employing ...

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | Download This episode is the first in our new season of Building Local Power, The New Class, where we are talking to interesting changemakers among ...

The 2020 edition of ILSR’s Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom report analyzes the latest data available from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate broadband competition ...

Uwe Brandes: Our work was able to really elevate those local perspectives in a way that just hadn’t been, really ever, before. We were able to translate these community-based conversations into a ...

Mayor Kapszukiewicz: We know when it began, it turned Dorr Street from the unrivaled hub of African American life in Toledo, full of shops and stores and camaraderie and family and economic energy ...

It’s no secret that cities with multiple locations of the same chain often have “a good one” and “a bad one.” Characteristics of “The Bad Target” include longer lines, dirtier facilities, fewer ...

Rural America has lagged economically behind major metros in recovering from COVID-19, slowing growth across the region. In a lively conversation, Pittman shares the ways Wilson, N.C. has found ways ...

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | Download The destruction of Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio isn’t just a story of physical destruction; it’s about the dismantling of crucial social ...

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | Download Veteran journalist, Harry Jaffe, reflects on his four-decade career dedicated to covering some of Washington D.C.’s stories, emphasizing the ...

Footnotes. Data from Wunderman Thompson Commerce’s The Future Shopper Report 2020 as cited in “Where Shoppers Say They Start Their Product Hunt: Amazon,” Marketing Charts, May 22, 2020. “An eCommerce ...