Joseph Blasi

SEE MY LIVE SENATE TESTIMONY Thurs 10 am Empowering Workers by Expanding Employee Ownership, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ help.senate.gov

Patricia Hetter Kelso was the current leading theoretical figure on worker equity shares & citizen ownership stakes when she died last week and a signal female economic intellectual of the last century. Irreplaceable! .@ESOPAssociation .@EmployeeOwnedUS .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP

BREAKING NEWS: Let’s honor Patricia Kelso who passed July 4th— a leading thought leader/author on ESOPs and employee share ownership. Here is the video of her Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership talk . .⁦⁦⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ youtu.be/M1BrXUF6yJQ

MEDIA: Quoted in The Wall Street Journal today on Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPPs). Charter Communications has done it differently - likely to increase employee participation from the typical 30% participation rate. .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP .@RU_SMLR wsj.com/articles/chart…

A bipartisan group of Senators & Representatives introduced a bill today designed to dramatically expand ESOPs and worker coops in closely-held firms where the owner is seeking to retire. .@RU_SMLR .@ESOPAssociation .@EmployeeOwnedUS .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP lafayettesquareinstitute.org/news/aora-pres…

On Wednesday April 9 and Thursday April 10, please VIRTUALLY attend our joint Washington, D.C. #employeeownership Ideas Policy Forum at the US Capitol & The Aspen Institute .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ aspeninstitute.org/events/employe…

Watch a free film on employee share ownership companies, We The Owners, .⁦@BeysterFound⁩ .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ .⁦@OwnershipFound⁩ .⁦⁦@EOXNetworkUS⁩ newswise.com/articles/rutge…

BREAKING! Guidelines on how to value shares sold to employee stock ownership plans (ESOPS) issued by the US DOL addressing 50 yr need for clarity to spur development of equity shares for workers. .@ESOPAssociation .@EmployeeOwnedUS .@theNCEO .@ASPENEOP public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-01047.pdf

Presenting 30 new Fellows to investigate shares of equity and a shares of profits in the US economy at Rutgers University .@RU_SMLR

Addressing fall in real incomes/wealth for workers, thirty new fellows at the Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership & #ProfitSharing will examine the topics. .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ newswise.com/articles/rutge…

#profitsharing is a widely bipartisan idea supported by conservatives and liberals. The U.S. has no special corporate tax incentives for PS out of $300-400 BILLION annual corporate tax incentives & workers pay punitive ordinary income taxes—is this fair? bringmethenews.com/minnesota-busi…

UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM ON EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP on Google News. Read the Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership & #ProfitSharing announcement about this new network to encourage cooperation in colleges .@RU_SMLR .@AspenJobQuality newswise.com/articles/rutge…

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership & #ProfitSharing announces a University Consortium on Employee Share Ownership .⁦⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeesOwn⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenJobQuality⁩ .⁦@beyster⁩ smlr.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-l…

REPUBLICAN #employeeownership legislation: Tennessee Senate bill supports employee buyout outreach by ESOPs/coops/EOTs, payment of conversion costs, a lower tax rate, protection of contracting preferences for veteran/minority/women By Senator Page Walley. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/…

ADVANCED STUDIES: Check out the ideas and papers on #employeeownership at the recent Rutgers-Oxford Symposium held at Oxford: 32 scholars.. .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeesOwn⁩ .⁦@AspenJobQuality⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ smlr.rutgers.edu/2024-rutgers-o…

Harris policy update "to let workers share in... success, including through broad-based employee stock ownership, profit-sharing plans, and comparable arrangements, with appropriate guardrails to ensure these plans benefit and protect workers." Report at: bit.ly/4dpFIst

The #employeeownership #profitsharing statement is at 32:11 on C-SPAN c-span.org/video/?538649-… .@EmployeesOwn .@ESOPAssociation .@theNCEO .@AspenJobQuality .@RU_SMLR

VP HARRIS QUOTE: "we will reform our tax laws to make it easier for businesses to let workers share in their companies’ success" & "challenge the private sector to do more, to lift up workers through equity, profits, and benefits, so more people can share in America’s success"

First mention of #employeeownership & #profitsharing in this idea season. .@ESOPAssociation .@theNCEO .@EmployeesOwn .@AspenJobQuality .@RU_SMLR