ILSR’s recent report, Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities, has been featured in numerous media stories and has inspired new reporting on the company. Here are a few highlights.… Read More
Google and Netflix joined a handful of advocacy groups and other companies lobbying against a proposed Virginia state law that would make it far more difficult for municipalities to offer Internet service. Jon Brodkin of ArsTechnica cited the press release from our broadband research team in his coverage.… Read More
“Legislation proposed in Virginia and Missouri would tighten the noose that restricts local governments from creating broadband options. In Virginia, the bill comes from a state delegate with strong ties to the telecommunications industry and with ALEC, the national advocacy group that wrote similar laws for other states. A Virginia state delegate who has received contributions from six telecommunications corporations has introduced a bill to place further restrictions on municipal broadband,” writes Craig Settles for The Daily Yonder quoting our broadband research in his coverage.… Read More
In this story for CBS’ Money Watch blog, retail hiring gains the spotlight. While there have been a lot of ink spilled on the benefits of this job creation, our policy researcher Olivia LaVecchia takes on the commonly held wisdom about the quality of these jobs. Read more…… Read More
Trump’s FCC has vowed to dismantle the open internet. Here’s what normal people can do to save net neutrality and destroy big telecom’s stranglehold on the industry. But first, they’ll need to get past the industry’s chosen Congressperson, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). Motherboard Vice‘s Jason Koebler interviewed our own Christopher Mitchell for his story.… Read More
In the USA Today network, our own co-director Stacy Mitchell was quoted to detail the quality level of the types of jobs that Amazon would supposedly be bringing to the American economy.… Read More
Since the publication of our landmark Amazon report in November of 2016, it’s been no secret that the level of subsidies the e-commerce giant has received is extraordinary. That’s why Crain’s Chicago Business cited our research in this story on Amazon’s jobs report.… Read More
ILSR is featured in this story from BuzzFeed News on the impact that Amazon’s announced 100,000 jobs will have on the economy and the labor economy from Caroline O’Donovan.… Read More
In a Reuters wire service release, Amazon follower Jeffrey Dastin cited our landmark Amazon report that details the growth of the e-commerce giant and the impact it is having in our economy.… Read More
