Last week, I shared how we should be encouraged by recent developments to ramp up efforts in support of America’s new and young job creators—including legislation put forth by President Obama at the end of January. While there still remains a small window to get something done, Washington’s old timers emailed me afterwards to remind me that tackling the challenges of passing reforms during an election year is very hard and patience is in order. But as Bob Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation succinctly put it in an op-ed last week, the political climate at the federal level “doesn’t mean we’re out of ammunition.”
States have made great policy moves to inject entrepreneurial dynamism to our economy before and can do so again. The Kauffman Foundation’s State of Entrepreneurship Address delivered last Thursday offered several examples of policies states can implement to spur more entrepreneurship. Based on a collaborative study with the National Governors Association, the Kauffman Foundation issued A Startup Act for the States to guide policymakers at the state level. I share the main insights with you here.
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