Programs & Projects
Events
Building an Equitable Community Summit, Jamaica Plain, MA, panel with Holly Sklar, May 17.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) National Conference, Boston, MA, June 5-7.
Press Releases
BSP in the News
- Sacramento Bee: Arensmeyer, Health care reform is vital to small business
1/25/08 - Post Bulletin (MN): The rich keep getting richer
12/28/07 - San Francisco Chronicle: Health care plan means only 1% tax for small business
12/26/07 - San Jose Mercury News: Arensmeyer, Small businesses need health care help
12/3/07 - San Francisco Chronicle: Arensmeyer Letter to Editor: Small Businesses Care
11/28/07 - Boston Globe: The future of the corporation
11/21/07 - Stateline: Will California take the plunge on health care?
11/19/07 - AlterNet: Chuck Collins, Warren Buffett to Congress: Keep taxing the mega-rich
11/19/07 - Politico: Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, Estate tax is fairest means of building revenue
11/14/07 - Washington Business Journal: Future of health care "up for grabs" in election
11/12/07 - San Francisco Chronicle: Arensmeyer and Russo, California can't wait for health care reform
11/9/07 - DMI Blog: Minimum Wage, Maximum Good
10/31/07
Resource Spotlight
Join the BSP Network!
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.

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
California Business for Comprehensive Health Care Reform
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
Tell the MA legislature to close tax loopholes and level the playing field for business.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)

