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A Main Street, bipartisan solution to income inequality & social mobility
Common Ground and Real Solutions
Republican Stance:
Income inequality = class warfare and redistribution of wealth, taxing the rich to give to the poor
Prefer to emphasize opportunity and upward mobility
Government should do little; prefer laissez-faire “free” market so that a growing economy will create opportunity
Democrat Stance:
Feel that Republican ideas to overhaul education, job-training and safety-net programs often double as budget-cutting initiatives
Strong public support for investing more in education from preschool through college, increasing the minimum wage and raising taxes on the highest earners
Common Ground:
Expanding mobility and opportunity = more appealing to middle-class voters for 2014 midterm elections
Americans less concerned about inequality of outcomes, more concerned about equal opportunities for rising generations
THE SOLUTION:
Deploy worker ownership to progress from the “Me” to the “Us”
Expand greater workplace equity, reconnect workplaces to community wellbeing, and empower local living economies.

Facts about Worker-Ownership
Companies with broad-based ownership:
- are more stable
- produce fewer job losses
- outperform companies with greater disparity between executive and employee compensation
Yet, worker-ownership in America is a fraction of what it should be.
- Only 400 worker-owned cooperatives in America representing between 4,000 to 5,000 worker-owners
- 29,000 member-owned cooperatives account for:
- $3 trillion in assets
- $500 billion in revenue
- over 1 million jobs
There are over 11,000 employee-owned companies, but only in 4,000 companies do employees own the majority of the stock.