On Wednesday, February 5, the U.S. House Small Business Committee announced a full committee hearing called “Challenges and Benefits of Employee-owned Small Businesses,” which will take place on Wednesday, February […]
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Policy and Advocacy Council Strategy Meeting Update January 2020
In 2020, the USFWC’s Policy and Advocacy Council has grown with the increasing policy and advocacy work that is happening across the country. The council will now host two meetings […]
Read More >Will Employee Ownership Decrease Wealth Inequality?
Employee ownership advocates maintain that if more citizens were owners of businesses, then wealth inequality, and perhaps income inequality, would decrease. Read more on Nonprofit Quarterly
Read More >Making a More Democratic Economy, One Revolving Loan Fund at a Time
If you want to apply for a loan from the City of Berkeley Loan Fund for small businesses, the first thing you need is a loan denial letter from a […]
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Policy and Advocacy Council September 2019 update
The September convening of the USFWC’s Policy and Advocacy Council was jam-packed. Here’s a few updates from our meeting full of old and new attendees: Santa Clara City Council is […]
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The Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus is back in business
NCBA CLUSA re-establishes bipartisan Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus in the 116th Congress Thanks to the diligent work of our partners at NCBA CLUSA and many of our members and partners, […]
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Help us build support for a Congressional hearing on SBA’s disappointing report
Recently the Small Business Administration released a report on financing alternatives that does not fulfill Congress’s directive in Main Street Employee Ownership Act (MSEOA). The USFWC has worked with our […]
Read More >Clearing the Legal and Financial Pathway for Worker Cooperatives in Illinois
“The worker cooperative project felt like the space where I could go an envision an economy that would work for us, it was something I could focus my energies on […]
Read More >85,000 Jobs Could Be Lost in Connecticut, With More Across the Nation, Unless We Act
Democratic employee-ownership allows those who know the business best to keep it running and enjoy its rewards: the employees. Second, conversion to democratic employee-ownership can occur smoothly. Full conversions need […]
Read More >Workers rising: The push for city-supported worker coops is taking hold in these Bay Area cities
When Rendell “Ren” Boguiren got a job in college at a South Bay pizzeria, he wasn’t expecting it would become a career. Now, as a part-owner in the business, he […]
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$100,000 dedicated to worker cooperative development in Berkeley
The USFWC congratulates the Sustainable Economies Law Center and the Bay Area worker co-op community for their policy and advocacy efforts in Berkeley following the Berkeley City Council’s historic vote on […]
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Webinar Recording: How to work with Small Business Development Centers
The USFWC Policy and Advocacy Council hosts quarterly public webinars on current topics. This quarter, we are focused on the resources you need to communicate with your local small business […]
Read More >By a wide margin, Americans support “inclusive ownership funds”
“Inclusive ownership funds” are an exciting new idea building momentum in policy circles on both sides of the Atlantic. The basic idea is to mandate and institutionalize a more equal distribution of corporate […]
Read More >Employee Ownership Could Be Coming to a Company Near You
Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including […]
Read More >Bernie Sanders backs 2 policies to dramatically shift corporate power to U.S. workers
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will push new policies aimed at giving workers a greater ownership stake in companies, moves the 2020 presidential candidate is pitching as a dramatic transfer of […]
Read More >Jarrett announces bid for Ward 5 council seat in Northampton
Alex Jarrett says he’s hopeful about the city’s future, and he’s running for the Ward 5 seat on the City Council to enact policies that will keep it on that […]
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Remaking the Economy: The Critical Role of Advocacy
Watch our Executive Director in this new video from Nonprofit Quarterly. What can and should be done to make public policy more conducive to a more democratic economy? That is the […]
Read More >How Massachusetts is working to get retiring business owners to let their employees take over
As baby boomers get ready for retirement, there’s going to be a wave of small businesses that could be shut down or sold to big corporations. But there’s another way: […]
Read More >Massachusetts Seeks to Avert Business Shutdowns by Boosting Employee Ownership
According to Adam Vartikar, founder and chair of the advocacy group Working Wealth, Massachusetts has 42,000 small businesses whose owners are likely to retire in the next seven to 10 years, collectively […]
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Berkeley Sets the Bar for Municipal Support of Worker Cooperatives
Last night, Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted a set of recommendations provided by the Sustainable Economies Law Center (Law Center) and a coalition of worker coop members and advocates. In […]
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