{"id":2087,"date":"2011-05-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/local-businesses-help-the-local-economy.html"},"modified":"2011-05-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:00:00","slug":"local-businesses-help-the-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/local-businesses-help-the-local-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"Local businesses help the local economy"},"content":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/keepitlocal.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/studies-find-local-biz-creates-far.html\">\na long list of studies<\/a> that show that:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/keepitlocal.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/studies-find-local-biz-creates-far.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.civiceconomics.com\/Andersonville\/assets\/images\/Box_Blue.jpg\"><\/a>\nIndependent businesses have been found to generate between 60% and 300% more local economic activity that chain retail stores do.\n<\/blockquote>\nSomebody remind me why VLCIA&#8217;s main efforts are on bringing in big chains?\n<p>\nOr why people are so fascinated with Olive Garden, for that matter?\n<p>\nWell, I suppose if you want lower wages,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrules.org\/retail\/key-studies-walmart-and-bigbox-retail#3\">\nbig box retailers are good for that.<\/a>\n<p>\nHm, so the ultimate big box would be\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/cca\">\na private prison:<\/a>\na literally captive audience paid for by captive tax dollars\nand hirable at the lowest possible wages.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a long list of studies that show that: Independent businesses have been found to generate between 60% and 300% more local economic activity that chain retail stores do. Somebody remind me why VLCIA&#8217;s main efforts are on bringing in big chains? Or why people are so fascinated with Olive Garden, for that matter? Well, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,14,321,72,178],"tags":[4612,8817,8704,4613,8730,4611,75,3209],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-food-and-drink","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-big-box","tag-cca","tag-economy","tag-franchise","tag-incarceration","tag-local","tag-prison","tag-wages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}