At this time when the need for jobs and enterprise tops the national agenda, we not only ignore one of the major sources of new jobs and businesses in the economy, but we actually penalize their creation.
On June 30, Democracy hosted Responding to the Jobs Crisis: A Progressive Entrepreneurship Agenda, a symposium that focused on the need for progressive entrepreneurship in todays tough economy. The panel discussion was held at the National Press Club, and made possible with generous support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The intrepid entrepreneur striking out on his own has always been an essential part of Americas image of itself. Pulling himself up by his bootstrapsor setting up her e-business on a laptop in a coffee shopthe self-made individual is the...