The economic toll from the pandemic has been tough to measure, but new estimates from the Federal Reserve suggest it wasn’t as bad as feared for smaller businesses.
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Amazon s third-party sellers have long had a love-hate relationship with the ecommerce giant. Some have hit their breaking point.
On Tuesday, a coalition of more than 20 independent business groups representing main street businesses including booksellers, office supplies sellers, and hardware stores kicked off a joint effort aimed at breaking up Amazon. The group known as Small Business Rising is pushing lawmakers to enact stricter antitrust laws and enforcement measures, as first reported reported by
The Wall Street Journal.
Specifically, the merchant coalition wants the ecommerce giant to separate its retail business from its marketplace of third-party sellers, says Stacy Mitchell, the co-director of the Institute for Local Reliance, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that advocates for sustainable community development and key organizer behind Small Business Rising. She adds that the coalition hopes to achieve this by creating opportunities
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An action plan to curb food loss and waste in the U.S. pitched to Congress and the Biden administration this week by four organizations and supported by a host of cities, businesses and nonprofits recommends funding infrastructure that keeps organic waste out of disposal sites by providing state- and city-level investments for measuring, rescuing and recycling it.
Led by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ReFED and World Wildlife Fund, the plan also stipulates that federal facilities take steps to prevent organic waste and purchase finished compost products. The organizers urge lawmakers to spur growth of compost markets among private sector buyers as well.
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