Chivukula Follows Up on His Career in Elected Office with an Economic Blueprint

By Max Pizarro • 09/17/16 8:35pm BRIDGEWATER – Upendra Chivukula’s appearance earlier today at the public library here should have been a happy occasion. Instead, it merely underscored the intellectual gulf between himself and that world in Trenton he left behind in 2014 after a decade in the legislature. The place has gotten duller since […]

Chivukula Talks New Book, Bipartisanship and Making Capitalism Work for Everyone

By Alyana Alfaro – 09/12/16 3:38am – from Observer – PolitickerNJ   Authors Upendra Chivukula and Veny W. Musum will host a conversation about their book, The 3rd Way, with a presentation and question and answer session beginning at 12:30 p.m. in the Bridgewater branch of the Somerset County Library on Saturday, September 17th. The library is located […]

Does Employee Ownership Work?

Does Employee Ownership Work? By Upendra Chivukula and Veny W. Musum – March 23, 2016 Today, almost 50% of Americans own zero capital wealth. With the already manifest discontent all over the country, this fact is an ominous recipe for even wider, much more serious future levels of unrest. However, there is a solution. Shared employee […]

OPINION: Presidential platforms failing America

SOURCE: dailyre.co/1prPIJR – Upendra J. Chivukula & Veny W. Musum – 12:02 a.m. EDT March 18, 2016 In a 2014 interview with Frank Rich, comedian Chris Rock said, “If poor people knew how rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.” News flash to Chris … there are riots in the streets. What is even more […]

ICEPN TV Special Interview with Upendra Chivukula

“Inclusive” capitalism would change the playing field by offering significant tax incentives to corporations willing to establish employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), allowing employees to acquire capital shares without depleting their own savings. Stock holdings would provide the middle and lower classes with what they so desperately need: income capital in ADDITION to earnings via […]

Making Choices: Is an employee stock ownership plan the best option for your business?

By Upendra Chivukula & Veny W. Musum in Management Today Magazine A model for employee ownership certainly is W.L. Gore & Associates, a company owned by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and by Gore family members. One of the most innovatively managed companies in the country, it has been on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies […]

Income inequality solutions offered by Basking Ridge author

By W. JACOB PERRY, Staff Writer, The Bernardsville News BERNARDS TWP. – A growing gap between the rich and poor has become a hot topic in the 2016 Presidential election, and a new book co-authored by a township resident offers solutions to the issue that are drawing praise from prominent officials and economists. “THE 3rd […]

Chivukula Co-Authors Book on Bipartisan Answers to Economic Reform

By Alyana Alfaro – Politicker NJ Upendra Chivukula is a former Democratic Assemblyman and the current commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. Now he has added “author” to his resume with a new book, The 3rd Way. The 3rd Way aims to prove that there is a “bipartisan answer” to the “political […]

Proposed Legislative Changes to Address Income Inequality – Pro Se Nation

THE 3rd WAY authors Upendra Chivukula and Veny Musum assert that changes to the corporate tax laws and the adoption of wide-spread employee profit sharing will provide a solution to the economic crisis for the middle class. Join us for a discussion exploring their proposal in the next edition of Pro Se Nation beginning Thursday, […]