New Power Generation Quarterly: 2024 Q3
Dec 11, 2024 · More than 7.5 gigawatts of new power capacity went online in the third quarter of 2024 and most (90%) of this capacity was renewable. Seventy-four percent of new capacity was from solar generation, with 4 gigawatts of large-scale solar and 1.7 gigawatts of distributed solar.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Dec 12, 2024 · What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our communities, and how decisions are made by government, corporations, and businesses because it affects all of us.
The Policy Shift That Decimated Local Grocery Stores
Nov 26, 2024 · Click here to download the graph and timeline of events. 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.
Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses
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America's Monopoly Problem - Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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,” Suresh Naidu, Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl, Harvard Law Review, February 23, 2018, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN.; The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran, 2017; “Research Shows Food ...
Key Studies: Why Independent Matters - Institute for Local Self …
Jan 8, 2016 · In recent decades, policy across the country has privileged the biggest corporations. Yet a growing body of research is proving something that many people already know: small-scale, locally owned businesses create communities that are more prosperous, entrepreneurial, connected, and generally better off across a wide range of metrics.
Report: Most Americans Have No Real Choice in Internet Providers
Aug 12, 2020 · 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 in communities across the country. Thanks largely to the power of monopoly corporations like Comcast, Charter, and AT&T, millions of Americans still do not have a real choice when it comes to ...
8 Policy Strategies Cities Can Use to Support Local Businesses
Aug 28, 2017 · The Institute for Local Self-Reliance produced this policy brief for Local Progress, a network of elected officials organized by the Center for Popular Democracy.
Issue Brief: How Amazon Exploits and Undermines Small …
Jun 16, 2021 · Public Support for Regulation of Big Tech: Analysis of Survey Findings,” Lake Research Partners, Feb. 2021. “Congress Is Leaning Towards a Big Tech Breakup,” Hal Singer, ProMarket, Mar. 9, 2021. “Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets,” U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, 2020, at 15 ...
Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business
Aug 10, 2016 · Click to download the full report. Note: A version of this paper also appeared in The Antitrust Bulletin under the title “The View from the Shop—Antitrust and the Decline of America’s Independent Businesses.”In June 2017, it was recognized as “Best Antitrust and Small Business Article” as part of the annual Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship.