By Corey Rosen, NCEO
Employee-Owned America publishes a lot of articles on why employee ownership works. But can EO advocates put their money where their keyboards are? Results from the first U.S. mutual fund created ...
Here’s the ambitious five-to-six-year goal: a million more employee owners. And here’s the strategy: help to establish employee-ownership centers in states covering 70% of the US population.
The newly formed group with these ...
By Corey Rosen, NCEO
For the first time in many years, there seems to be rising and serious interest among some members of Congress in making employee ownership a much more prominent policy objective.
While the immediate impetus is coming from the offices of Representative Velazquez (D-NY) and Senators Gillibrand (D-NY) and Baldwin (D-WI), employee ownership has always been a bipartisan effort. This was recently demonstrated by the unopposed passage of the Main Street ...
If you’ve heard a lot about the “Silver Tsunami” of impending retirements among boomer business owners, that’s thanks partly to the work of Alison Lingane, Hilary Abell, and their team at Project Equity, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit that is helping to spread the word about employee ownership.
Most employee ownership advocates have had the experience. You mention the topic in casual conversation. You elicit some interest, but it’s followed by a confession of ignorance—something like, “I had no idea there were so many companies ...
The number of ESOPs in the US hasn’t increased in recent years, but the number of ESOP participants has. How so?
One reason is that many ESOP companies have been on the acquisition trail. In fact, ESOP-related acquisitions have increased fivefold ...
by Corey Rosen, National Center for Employee Ownership
For the first time since the late 1970s, non-tax bills to promote employee ownership are moving in Congress. Two bills, both of which focus on the Small Business Administration, have passed in a committee without dissent, and both have bipartisan support. One of these, the Main Street Employee Ownership Act, has already passed the House. In a time when it seems impossible for Congress to do anything except approve judges ...
