Reports and Studies
Informative documents for consumers and businesses about the benefits of shopping locally.
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Reports
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Angelou Report On Santa Fe Independent Businesses
Like New Orleans, Santa Fe’s economy is based largely on small locally owned businesses. And like New Orleans, Santa Fe’s economic health is on the line as national chains move in, bringing with them increasing competition for labor, higher rents, and usually a decrease in small business sales.
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Arts And Economic Development
Learn how arts programs have served as components of high-impact economic development programs by assisting state and local government in multiple ways.
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BIBA TIF Report
The author of this report from Boulder, CO states, “TIF holds the promise of a no-risk benefit to our sales tax revenue stream, but in point of fact, there are consequences…And there are alternatives to TIF.”
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Community Benefits Agreements: Ensuring that Urban Redevelopment Benefits Everyone
CBAs are legally binding contracts between two private parties— developers and community-labor coalitions—to ensure that major development projects benefit local community residents.
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Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable
Written to help community groups learn how CBAs work, and to explain the many benefits for which community groups can negotiate.
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Economic Impact Analysis: Local Merchants vs. Chain Retailers
Civic Economics conducted this analysis for Liveable Cities assessing the economic impact of local merchants relative to a chain merchant carrying comparable lines of goods in Austin. BookPeople, Waterloo Records, and Borders Books & Music, provide a case study. (2002)
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Footloose and Fancy Free: Top 30 US Walkable Urban Places
Urban development is trending away from “drivable sub-urban development” and back to higher density “walkable urban places” as witnessed by the success of transit-oriented development, downtown revitalizations, and new urbanism. Read the summary of The Brookings Institution report by Christopher B. Leinberger.
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Local vs Chain in Maine
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Louisiana Small Business Healthcare Stats
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Louisiana Small Business Healthcare Survey
Small Business Majority’s first national online survey, conducted in 2006, showed that the cost of healthcare was the top concern of small business—above taxes, energy and other issues. The survey found that healthcare costs continue to be a major problem for small business owners.
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Louisiana Survey: Small Businesses Need Healthcare Reform
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New Rules Project Fact Sheet
Looking for some facts about supporting local businesses? Check out this great fact sheet put together by the New Rules Project.
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The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
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Trade Deficit in Food Safety
Stay Local! participated in the New Orleans release of this July 2007 report by Public Citizen calling for stronger food import policies to ensure food safety. Bottom line: Shop local for your meat, produce, and seafood. See you at the Farmer’s Market!
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Which PILOTs Should Fly
March 2007 report by the Bureau of Governmental Research on “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOTs) in New Orleans. A must-read for taxpayers in general and local business owners in particular.
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Why Not To Have Walmart In Boulder
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