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A Business Solution to a Social Need With First Step Staffing CEO Amelia Nickerson

“We’ve really seen that work is not just income. It is about hope, and dignity, and that chance to control your own path.”

Amelia Nickerson, CEO, First Step Staffing

First Step Staffing is working to put people’s paths back in their own hands. First Step is a staffing company that has employed nearly 7,500 individuals across the country, including the veteran population, those experiencing homelessness, and people impacted by the criminal justice system. Their business model is helping for-profit businesses succeed, while also helping the community thrive. Learn more about reforms that can empower innovative businesses and the workforce here: https://thefga.org/solution/promoting-work-over-welfare/worker-shortage/

At FGA, we don’t just talk about changing policy—we make it happen.

By partnering with FGA through a gift, you can create more policy change that returns America to a country where entrepreneurship thrives, personal responsibility is rewarded, and paychecks replace welfare checks.