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Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.
Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed interviews! This week I spoke with Ron Knox of the Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) about small businesses and the challenges they face in our monopolized economy.
Check out Ron’s article in The Nation, Can Fairness Fix the US Economy? [ [link removed] ] You can also check out ILSR’s data on independent grocers in The Policy Shift That Decimated Local Grocery Stores [ [link removed] ].
ILSR’s Independent Business [ [link removed] ] webpage also has a wide variety of resources to help out advocates fight for their small businesses at a state and local level.
Book Club!!!
Each month we will be promoting a book and at the end of the month we will interview the author. We encourage folks to read the book and send in questions that we will ask the authors.
February’s book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power [ [link removed] ]” by David Dayen [ [link removed] ], the executive editor of The American Prospect.
You can purchase “Monopolized” here [ [link removed] ]. And be sure to send in your questions for David by commenting below.
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BEFORE YOU GO
If you have ideas on who to interview or what book should be the “book of the month” down the road, please let us know.
Break Em Up!
Justin Stofferahn
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