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Are Young Workers the "Go Nowhere" Generation?

While Some Think Millenials Are the Lost Generation, Scott Gerber Plans to #FixYoungAmerica

Stick to the Plan

Q: What are some of the answers #FixYoungAmerica is proposing?

Gerber: We're proposing several things such as:

  • Passing a common-sense student loan forgiveness program for young entrepreneurs through the Youth Entrepreneurship Act
     
  • Making franchise ownership more financially accessible and visible to young people, including our young veterans
     
  • Passing the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which includes a crowd funding bill that would simplify the regulations that currently make raising startup capital through crowd funding platforms challenging
     
  • Fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems at the community and city levels through community building, business plan competitions, and public-school initiatives like New York’s Academy for Software Engineering, startup accelerators and nonprofit initiatives
     
  • Creating more integrated, experiential entrepreneurship degree programs at colleges across the U.S.
     
  • Expanding Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) programs through the STARTUP Act, so ALL entrepreneurs can use unemployment insurance benefits as startup capital (at no extra cost to the government or taxpayers).

 

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