Where the jobs are entrepreneurship and the soul of the American economy
After remaining remarkably consistent for decades, the rate of new business formation has declined significant in recent years, and the number of new jobs created by new firms is also falling. In Where the Jobs Are, the authors recount the findings of a remarkable summer they spent traveling the cou...
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Hoboken, New Jersey
Wiley
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: America's Jobs Emergency; Chapter 2: Not Just Small Businesses ... New; Chapter 3: On the Road with America's Job Creators; Chapter 4: "Not Enough People with the Skills We Need"; Policy Recommendations; Incentivize STEM Education; Launch a Curriculum-Focused Dialogue Between Business and Education; Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America's Educators; Incentivize Experienced Talent to Consider Joining Growing Start-Ups
- Gradually But Significantly Reduce the Federal Budget Deficit and National DebtEnact Comprehensive Competitiveness-Enhancing Tax Reform; Increase the Research and Development Tax Credit-and Make It Permanent; Return Federal Funding of R & D to 2 Percent of GDP; Jump-Start America's Trade Agenda; Negotiate a U.S-China Free Trade Agreement; Combine and Modernize Unemployment Insurance and Trade Adjustment Assistance; Conclusion; Appendix: Summary of Recommendations; Establish a Preferential Tax and Regulatory Framework to Cultivate New Business Formation and Growth
- Enhance the Quality, Technical Capacity, and Flexibility of the American WorkforceModernize Immigration Laws to Attract and Retain the World's Best Talent; Enhance Access to Capital for New Businesses; Reduce Regulatory Burden, Complexity, and Uncertainty; Accelerate Scientific and Commercial Innovation; Accelerate Economic Growth by Reducing Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty; Afterword; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Index
- Require Third-Party Review of All Proposed RegulationsCreate a Regulatory Improvement Commission; Rank States' Regulatory Environment; Chapter 8: "Tax Payments Can Be the Difference between Survival and Failure"; Policy Recommendations; Establish a Preferential Tax Framework for New Businesses; Allow Cash Method of Accounting for the First Five Years; Allow 100 Percent Expensing of Business Investment for the First Five Years; Pass the Start-Up Innovation Credit Act; Chapter 9: "There's Too Much Uncertainty-and It's Washington's Fault"; Policy Recommendations
- Chapter 5: "Our Immigration Policies Are Insane"Policy Recommendations; Eliminate the Cap on H-1B Visas; Award "Graduation" Green Cards; Create a "High-Skill Immigrant" Green Card; Create a Start-Up Visa; Create CitizenCorps; Chapter 6: "Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore"; Policy Recommendations; Make the SBA More Entrepreneur-Friendly; Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital; Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market; Chapter 7: ""Regulations Are Killing Us"; Policy Recommendations; Devise a Preferential Regulatory Framework for New Businesses