Lauren manages campaign strategies and relationships with allied organizations and coalition partners, advocating for antimonopoly reforms.

Ron Knox is a senior researcher and policy advocate for ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. A combined storyteller and antitrust expert, Ron is building our deep bench of reporting and research on ...

Motion seeks to reveal details of complaint alleging PepsiCo gave preferential pricing to a big-box retailer while harming independent grocers and consumers WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 05, 2025) — The ...

ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative supported the development of a new toolkit to guide communities affected by wildfires and other sources of pollution on how to safely assess and remediate ...

Course Description Do you want to start a community-based composting project, but aren’t sure where to start? Are you involved with an existing community composting initiative, but need to brush up on ...

Episode 634: Food Deserts 99% Invisible features Stacy Mitchell and her research detailing how non-enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act was the linchpin in the explosion of food deserts.

Remembering David Morris What is Local Self-Reliance? Team Careers In the Media Financials and Annual Reports Our Funding Partners ...

Community leaders have good reason to be concerned about chain dollar stores. Here's an explanation of 17 ways dollar stores can hurt communities.

It Takes an Avalon Village Mar 21, 2024 Luke Gannon, Reggie Rucker Podcasts and Videos Building Local Power Podcast Racial Equity ...

Maps from eight cities show how numerous dollar stores have become in America and reveal a pattern between dollar stores and neighborhood income and race.

How Amazon uses its monopoly power to extract extreme and rapidly growing fees from businesses on their site that have little choice to reach customers.

With democratic control, cooperatives have the potential to be very responsive to member interests. Roanoke Electric Cooperative (REC) in North Carolina recently undertook an on-bill financing program ...