#1: Stop framing every problem as a transportation problem.
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Why were small businesses on such weak footing even before the pandemic?
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“We often talk about how megabanks are too big to fail. But the bigger problem is that megabanks are too big to succeed at the very things we most need the financial sector to do.”
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Can a humble corner bookstore make your city wealthier and more resilient? These small businesses have surprising staying power—and in many ways are an indicator species of a strong neighborhood.
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Can a humble corner bookstore make your city wealthier and more resilient? These small businesses have surprising staying power—and in many ways are an indicator species of a strong neighborhood.
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Charles Marohn recently did an interview with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
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Amazon wants to be your town’s one and only. They might even need to be in order to succeed. Is all that worth what’s in the little brown box?
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I think this community-based approach could go much farther than any president to develop strong, inclusive local economies that would, in turn, help us face other seemingly intractable 21st century issues like climate, energy, diversity and government finance.
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Stacy Mitchell, researcher and author of Big Box Swindle, discusses the origins of the big box store, the way they're subsidized by communities and how they are undercutting the American middle class.
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