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In the News: Stacy Mitchell October 17, 2017 Media Outlet: Morning Consult In a poll of American adults, Morning Consult found that majorities of each subgroup were generally favorable to Amazon locating its second headquarters to their community, “including 72 percent each of suburbanites and urbanites and 70 percent of rural dwellers.” However, as Joanna Piacenza from the Morning … Read More

In the News: Stacy Mitchell October 15, 2017 Media Outlet: The New York Times The tech giant Amazon has come under quite a bit of criticism as of late. At The New York Times,tech reporter Cecilia Kang covers how Amazon is responding to this criticism, by heavily increasing their lobbying efforts. In this story, our own co-director and the … Read More

In the News: Stacy Mitchell September 30, 2017 Media Outlet: The Capital Institute The Capital Institute’s mission is to search “for a new narrative that will illuminate how our economy and financial system can operate to promote a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth.” In that spirit, the Capital Institute’s Future … Read More

The Week‘s Jeff Spross isn’t entertained by how Amazon is searching for massive subsidies from local governments in the process of establishing a second North American headquarters. In his piece he cites ILSR’s press release on why local governments are at a massive disadvantage when being asked to dance for Amazon executives.… Read More

ILSR co-director and Community Scaled Economies initiative director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for a New York Times piece on Amazon’s search for subsidies in securing a second North American headquarters. The piece by Nick Wingfield and Patricia Cohen details the bidding war between local governments.… Read More

Stacy Mitchell’s analysis of Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods was featured in Alexei Alexis’ Bloomberg BNA article on the uproar over the Federal Trade Commission’s brief review of the deal. Check it out!… Read More