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On the recordAugust 25, 2010
if some entrepreneur started a business and was successful, he was aging, that he would have--and he was going to leave the business, that he knew about or she knew about the option of employee ownership
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders discusses the importance of awareness of employee ownership options for business succession.

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