Why Care about Independent, Locally Owned Businesses?
By Marie Donahue The following blog post appears courtesy of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. For additional information on the importance of supporting local independent businesses, please sign up for their Hometown Advantage Newsletter. Locally owned businesses play a central role in healthy communities and are among the best engines that cities and towns have for advancing economic opportunity and building resilient places. Small business ownership has been a pathway…read more →