New White Paper: Financing the Growth of Employee Ownership
In June of 2025, Lafayette Square Institute released a new white paper titled: “Financing the Growth of Employee Ownership: Policy Landscape Report” which examines employee ownership and the nature of the private financing gap—its sources, mechanics, and relevant policy interventions to date at the federal and state levels.
The analysis concludes by offering a menu of new policy opportunities at the state and federal levels to harness private institutional capital sources to create, grow, and sustain employee-owned companies.
The evidence is clear that employee ownership and ESOPs offer the chance to bolster our national competitiveness and productive capacity while creating generational wealth for American workers. We just need to spur our capital markets into making it happen.