Firms with high levels of employee participation show double the profits of peers.
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UK Sees Significant Growth in Employee-Owned Businesses
Ownership Hub is a collaborative initiative to scale employee ownership across the UK
Continue ReadingEmployee Ownership Centers Launch in DC and Missouri
DC embraces equity and community wealth building; Missouri receives support from SRC Holdings/Great Game of Business.
Continue ReadingReflections on Barriers to Growing Employee Ownership
Marjorie Kelly, co-founder of Fifty by Fifty and a leading authority on the democratic economy, talks with Bret Keisling, host of The ESOP Podcast.
Continue ReadingSenators Introduce Employee Ownership Legislation
A brief overview of legislative proposals to lift some of the barriers to growing employee ownership
Continue ReadingApis & Heritage Legacy Fund Targets Racial Wealth Gap
Announcing its first close at $30 million, the fund plans to acquire about 8 firms with majority workforces of color to transition to employee ownership.
Continue ReadingDick May and Chris Mackin: A $100 billion loan guarantee program for employee ownership would be transformational
A federal loan guarantee program of $100 billion per year would permit policymakers to grasp how employee ownership could truly address the problem of economic inequality on a national level.
Continue ReadingInternational Employee Ownership Organizations Endorse Corporate Responsibility
Growing momentum to put social purpose at the center of employee ownership firms.
Continue ReadingWorkers at Cooperatives Report High Job Satisfaction and Community Engagement
Dataset from first national survey of co-op workers publicly available through Democracy at Work Institute.
Continue ReadingBruce Dobb & Tomás Durán: Overcoming the “Equity Injection” Obstacle to Employee Ownership
The reauthorization of the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) could offer a timely answer to the down payment dilemma.
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