Julien Rosenbloom

Julien Rosenbloom is a Senior Associate at the Lafayette Square Institute, where he works on policy and investment research related to economic mobility, employee ownership, workforce development, infrastructure, and decarbonization. He previously advised the Biden Administration’s White House Council of Economic Advisers and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s policy staff.

States Test Financing and Training Models to Expand Employee Ownership

At the Aspen Institute’s 2026 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, Iowa state Rep. Shannon Lundgren, New Jersey state Sen. Andrew Zwicker and the Department of Labor’s Hilary Abell argued that states are becoming the main testing ground for expanding employee ownership. Their case was practical rather than theoretical: states can help owners and workers navigate outreach, feasibility studies, financing and post-transition education, while Washington funds, convenes and learns from those experiments without imposing a single model.

The Aspen InstituteJun 9, 202616 min read