How ESOPs Can Help Narrow the Wealth Gap

A lack of retirement security for the average American is a pressing challenge facing our country. In fact, the Aspen Institute recently named retirement security as one of the key pillars of income inequality. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are one attractive—and arguably underappreciated—potential solution to this challenge.

ESOPs broaden access to business ownership, strengthen the connection between workers’ effort and the value they create, and expand access to wealth through a capitalist, market-clearing mechanism.

Download our complimentary whitepaper to learn more about how ESOPs can help address wealth inequality in the US, help narrow the wealth gap, and broaden access to business ownership for workers—while helping business owners achieve their own succession planning, retirement, and tax goals.