"Pete Stavros, founder of Expanding ESOPs, shared ... a much more detailed public policy proposal with the ultimate aim not to promote ESOPs as we know them today, but to convince Congress to create a new type of qualified retirement plan under [ERISA] and to call them ESOPs. ... TEA agrees with some of the issues Expanding ESOPs highlights in its principles. However, the detailed STEP policy proposal is the wrong solution if the true goal is employee ownership and building retirement wealth for employee owners."  MORE >>