Footnotes “Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data,” Jose Azar, Ioana Elena Marinescu, Marshall Steinbaum, Bledi Taska, 2018; “Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power,” ...

How We Work. We help people aspire and argue for what they need: clean, local, affordable energy and the chance to own it, individually or collectively.; We help people understand why those in power ...

Our team fights the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses. ILSR’s new zine Resist Monopolies is a guide to how ...

In September, Wal-Mart was hit with three separate charges of predatory pricing. Government officials in Wisconsin and Germany accused the retailer of pricing goods below cost with an intent to drive ...

John Farrell is a co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs the Energy Democracy Initiative.Widely known as the guru of distributed energy, he has received accolades for his ...

Over the past 50 years, the growth of ILSR and its mission to build local power and fight corporate control has become a story worth telling.From taking on corporate giants like Amazon and Walmart to ...

For decades — from the 1930s until the 1980s — the U.S. grocery industry was remarkably competitive, with independent grocers thriving alongside large chains like Kroger and Safeway. Independent ...

$150,000 Grant Program for Composters in Historically Underserved Communities. ILSR is launching year two of the Composting for Community Mini-Grant Program to support new or existing local community ...

Resource Spotlight: Community Networks in California’s Federal Funding Account Broadband Grant Program. When California announced in 2021 that it would open a last-mile broadband grant program seeded ...

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 ...

Policy tools to advance community-based, local composting. The primary goal of our Composting for Community Initiative is to support and grow diversified local composting capacity that rises to meet ...

Where are community composters operating? Which cities, counties, and states support a distributed composting infrastructure through their policies and programs? ILSR’s Composting for Community Map ...