Research, Polls, & Articles
Focus
- In the US, family firms generate 64% of GDP or $5.9 trillion and 82 million jobs or 62% of domestic employment
- 78% of new job creation comes from family-owned firms
- 35% of Fortune 500 companies are family-owned or controlled
- Family firms have higher employee retention rates than non-family firms
Topics
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014 and Earlier
- Frank Luntz Presentation on Women Voters – June 18, 2014
- Frank Luntz Presentation on Income Inequality & Taxes – January 28, 2014
- Impacts on Small Businesses and Families – September 2010
- How the Death Tax Kills Small Businesses, Communities—and Civil Society by Patrick Fagan – June, 2010
- Statement of Terry Neese: Distinguished fellow, National Center Of Policy Analysis Family Policy Center – November 4, 2009
- Let The Death Tax Rest In Peace – August 5, 2009
- Afro American Newspapers: Families need a permanent, certain fix of Estate Tax – April 26, 2006
- Death Tax Squeezes Smaller Companies – May 17, 2005
- Death Tax Chronicle – 2005
- Hispanic Family-Owned Business Interviews – June 1, 2004
- Family Businesses Contribution to the U.S. Economy_ A Closer Look by Joseph H. Astrachan and Melissa Carey Shanker — September, 2003
- The Effects on Government Revenues from Repealing the Federal Estate Tax and Limiting the Step-Up in Basis for Taxing Capital Gains – June 30, 2003
- Women & The Death Tax – April 2002
- The Death Tax & Gay and Lesbian Americans – April 24, 2002
- Post-Election Survey Results, Groundbreaking Data On The Efforts Of The Death Tax – November 27, 2000
- A Declaration Of Independence From Death Taxation: A Bipartisan View – July 2000
- Survey Of The Impact Of The Federal Estate Tax on NAWBO Member Businesses – February 23, 2000
- Policy Analysis: Grave Robbers, The Moral Case Against The Death Tax – October 4, 1999
- Family Businesses In The US Economy – 1998
- An Analysis Of The Descent Distance Into The Defects Of The Estate Tax On Entrepreneurship – June 1, 1994
- Federal Transfer Taxation: A Study In Social Cost – 1993