Business for Shared Prosperity

Business for Shared Prosperity is a new network of forward-thinking business owners, executives and investors committed to building enduring economic progress on a strong foundation of opportunity, equity and innovation. More

Current Campaigns

Business for a Fair Minimum Wage

Don't Let Business Groups Against Raising the Minimum Wage Speak For You. Join more than 800 owners and managers - including the CEOs of Costco, Addus HealthCare, ABC Home, Eileen Fisher, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce -and small business owners in every state who support a higher minimum wage.

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The federal minimum wage went up on July 24 for the first time in ten years -- from $5.15 to just $5.85 -- and states such as Georgia are working to raise their minimum wage. Please join us in saying a raise for those at the bottom won't hurt the bottom line. In fact, states that have raised their minimum wages above the federal level have had better business trends than the other states. Sign on here.

Small Business for Affordable Health Care

The healthcare status quo is unacceptable. Small business owners are having a more difficult time than ever ensuring that their families and employees have affordable healthcare, which, in turn, impedes the ability of entrepreneurs to start new businesses and manage them effectively. Small Business for Affordable Health Care is a coalition of small business owners and managers from across California who believe that comprehensive healthcare reform is long overdue.
Please join with us in advocating for comprehensive healthcare reform NOW!
Sign the California Statement

Massachusetts: Close Tax Loopholes

Quotable Quotes

The increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business."
-Jim Sinegal, CEO, Costco

It is but equity...that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

Solutions that depend on driving down costs by reducing wages and social benefits — in advanced countries or in emerging economies — are always dead ends…

Strategies based on exploiting low-wage labor end up in competitive jungles, where victories are vanishingly thin and each day brings a new competitor… The activities that succeed over time are, in contrast, those that build on continuous learning and innovation."
-Suzanne Berger, How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing To Make It in Today’s Global Economy (based on MIT Industrial Performance Center study of more than 500 companies)

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