Susan Holmberg

Nov 14, 2024 | ilsr.org | Danny Caine |Reggie Rucker |Susan Holmberg |Katy Milani

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | DownloadFor many years, Reverend Ryan Brown has been a picker at Amazon’s RDU1 warehouse outside of Raleigh, NC. In 2020, he was asked to work in a part of the warehouse he knew was a dangerous COVID hot spot.

Sep 20, 2024 | ilsr.org | Susan Holmberg |Kennedy Smith

Vilified as the “robber barons of the 80s,” private equity has reemerged with a vengeance in pursuit of financial transactions that exist out of sight of regulatory scrutiny. These firms have targeted hundreds of industries, from manufacturing to supermarkets to nursing homes and drug rehab centers to veterinary services and more. In 2000, private equity firms held about 4 percent of U.S. corporate equity. By 2021, it was almost 20 percent.

Jun 20, 2024 | ilsr.org | Susan Holmberg

With a Foreword by Jeremie Greer, Liberation in a GenerationAfter decades of unchallenged consolidation, antimonopoly fervor is growing in the United States, with a renewed recognition that corporate concentration is a deep systemic problem. However, even as the movement gains influence to affect policy, the racial oppression that is embedded in American capitalism continues to hamper our ability to democratize economic and political power.

Jun 5, 2024 | ilsr.org | Ron Knox |Susan Holmberg

Toledo’s Dorr Street is emblematic of what happened in cities across the country. Community leaders are charting a path for rebirth. When Dorris Greer, 83, was growing up, Dorr Street was where the action was, where life was, where kids like her could walk past the street’s dozens of shops and storefronts, all pressed up tight against the sidewalk, and feel like they were experiencing all that life had to offer.

Apr 30, 2024 | ilsr.org | Susan Holmberg |Stacy Mitchell

The Biden administration has taken some bold moves to rein in big tech and to challenge market concentration more broadly. Who is winning this battle and why? What are the possibilities for and constraints on a fundamental shift in market power in America?