{"id":3842,"date":"2017-04-16T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:03:18","slug":"esops-in-pennsylvania-aiming-to-expand-employee-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/articles\/esops-in-pennsylvania-aiming-to-expand-employee-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"ESOPs in Pennsylvania \u2013 Aiming to Expand Employee Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PA Post <a href=\"https:\/\/papost.org\/2019\/12\/18\/shared-capitalism-pa-is-a-lab-for-expanding-the-number-of-employee-owned-firms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"recently released an article (opens in a new tab)\">recently posted an article<\/a> examining the state of employee ownership in Pennsylvania. Noting that the ESOP model is relatively rare statewide, the piece focuses on efforts to expand employee ownership throughout the Commonwealth, including efforts by <a href=\"https:\/\/ownershippennsylvania.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PaCEO (opens in a new tab)\">PaCEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article also highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newageindustries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NewAge Industries (opens in a new tab)\">NewAge Industries<\/a>, a long-time SES ESOP Strategies\u2019 client that just became 100 percent ESOP-owned. Our President and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/sesesop.com\/team_member\/james-g-steiker\/\">Jim Steiker<\/a> is also featured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the article, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/\u2018Shared capitalism\u2019 \u2014 Pa. is a lab for expanding the number of employee-owned firms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Shared capitalism\u2019 \u2014 Pa. is a lab for expanding the number of employee-owned firms (opens in a new tab)\">Shared capitalism\u2019 \u2014 Pa. is a lab for expanding the number of employee-owned firms<\/a>,\u201d in its entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA Post recently posted an article examining the state of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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