Bernie, worker coops, one missing detail

[rogerashton]

In a discussion a few days ago on Bernie's platform plank in favor of increasing the role of worker coops in our society (1), one responder wrote (2)

any of the assistances governments give to startups, especially small businesses, should be available to coops too

I responded (3) that worker coops are eligible for a Small Business Administration loan program, but that I thought this was recent.

I have since learned (4) that it dates only from 2012.

Perhaps this recent inclusion of worker cooperatives as small businesses subject to some government support is a consequence of increasing recognition of the potential of cooperatives generally, yet another point on which Bernie has been far ahead of the progressive movement as a whole -- leading from the front, not from the rear.