Next City – What Millions of Retiring Small Business Owners Could Mean for Cities
What Millions of Retiring Small Business Owners Could Mean for Cities
September 2018
Baby Boomers own the majority of small businesses, but only 17 percent of them have a formal exit plan for when they want to retire. When you consider that small businesses provide the vast majority of employment within low-income urban areas, there is a unique opportunity to benefit these communities by turning these workers into owners using the co-op model. Next City takes a deep dive into this issue based on a “co-op conversion” report recently issued by Capital Impact.
