Thursday, February 25, 2010

Kudos to Oklahoma

In a year when membership has remained stagnant, the number of ESOP Association members from the state of Oklahoma has grown.   Take a look at the chart at left which highlights the growth of OK company members. We looked in our files and since 1995, membership of OK companies has grown steadily. Why? Well, we don’t really know why. The Membership Department does track how a group or person hears about the Association on application forms, but it doesn’t...

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Congressional-Company Visit Kit: Practical Steps For Unparalleled Results

What you need to know Part 2   The ESOP Association will be running every Tuesday for the next seven weeks, tips for putting together a Congressional Company Visit. All of the information that will be featured in these excerpts is available on the Association’s website – http://www.esopassociation.org. The full Kit is available on the homepage under News.   First Steps               The ESOP advocate...

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Congressional-Company Visit Kit: Practical Steps for Unparalleled Results

What You Need to Know Part 1   The ESOP Association will be running every Tuesday for the next seven weeks, tips for putting together a Congressional Company Visit. All of the information that will be featured in these excerpts is available on the Association’s website – http://www.esopassociation.org. The full Kit is available on the homepage under News. Today we are featuring – What You Need to Know, Part 1.   Foreword              ...

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Good Developments in Worrisome Times

 The following post ran in the January 2010 issue of the ESOP Report as the Washington Report. We are re-printing the article on the blog.   Setting aside the horrible developments in Haiti, concerns over Islamist extremists not giving up the goal of killing as many Americans as possible, which triggers young American men and women being in far away places getting killed and maimed, and instead looking at what is the core reason for The ESOP Association’s banding together...

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

2010 Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership Award

The application period for the 2010 Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership Award is now open. For more information about the award and the application process, please click here. The application deadline is Friday, April 16th.   The Center for Business Education at the Aspen Institute (Aspen CBE), in partnership with the Foundation for Enterprise Development and the Employee Ownership Foundation, is pleased to announce the second annual award for promising dissertation research...

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Budget Calls for Tax Increases of $1.1 Trillion over Next 10 Years

It’s a big deal in D.C. when the President, no matter whether Democrat or Republican, publishes his budget recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins on October 1.  [In other words, the budget proposal released on February 1 is for the Federal Fiscal Year 2011, which begins on October 1, 2010.]  Everyone reads it over carefully, particularly proposals to alter tax laws.   The ESOP Association has been consistent over the past two years noting that the ballooning...

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