Year: 2023

Melissa Ortiz of Able Americans with NTD's Kelly Wright

Melissa Ortiz: 61 Million People With Disabilities Are Counting on Us to Develop Good Policies

Media Appearance /
On the NTD program "America's Hope with Kelly Wright," Melissa Ortiz explained the mission and current trajectory of the National Center's Able Americans project. The goal of Able Americans, in Melissa's words, is to "move to a free-market, limited-government perspective ...
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Horace Cooper on Fox News Describing the Progressive Deadbeat Dad

Horace Cooper: Black Americans No Longer Want to Partner With a Deadbeat Dad

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On the Fox News program "The Ingraham Angle," Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper said black Americans are finally awakening to the way progressive leaders have neglected them, and he compared the nation's current leadership to a deadbeat dad: The best ...
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FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

Free Enterprise Project /
BlackRock, proxy advisory firms and other behemoths have been using their size and influence -- not to mention your investments -- to force other corporations to adopt a leftwing agenda. But Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard says plans are ...
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Stefan Padfield: This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers

Stefan Padfield: This Labor Day, Reflect on Why ESG Is Bad for Workers

FEP Commentary /
Recently, the California State Retirement System (CalSTRS) doubled down on its pledge “to achieve a net zero investment portfolio by 2050, or sooner.” CalSTRS defended this decision by arguing that the steps it is taking to achieve net zero carbon emissions “are ...
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Stefan Padfield: Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism

Stefan Padfield: Break Up Overboarding to Break Up Woke Capitalism

FEP Commentary /
In light of the July 12-14 hearings before the House Financial Services Committee examining the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on financial decision-making, there has been a lot of talk about ways to rein in what might loosely be ...
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Christopher Arps: Unmasking China's Paper Tiger Economy

Christopher Arps: Unmasking China’s Paper Tiger Economy

Project 21 Commentary /
Facade Hides Vulnerabilities That Undermine Nation’s Global Standing An aura of invincibility has accompanied China‘s meteoric rise to becoming the world’s second-largest economy. Recent revelations, however, paint a different picture, revealing a troubled economic landscape that misrepresents the nation’s apparent ...
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crime looting urban city store

Stone Washington: Minority-Owned Businesses Suffer A Second Pandemic Of Crime As Local Governments Handcuff The Police

Project 21 Commentary /
The pandemic is now officially over. Thankfully most Americans survived, although we shall always miss those who were taken from us. However, one part of American society is still reeling from the pandemic’s effects – small business, especially small minority ...
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Disney Gay

How Much Influence Does the Human Rights Campaign Have On Disney Decisions?

FEP Commentary /
The Walt Disney Company once seemed untouchable. But oh how the mighty Mouse is falling. With Disney profits plummeting, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield explores possible explanations, wading through the muddy swamp of Florida politics and finding a likely ...
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Target Pride

Which Companies Offend You the Most? We Want to Hear From You!

Free Enterprise Project /
Here at the National Center we have fought woke policies at thousands of American companies. And we will continue to do so through our Free Enterprise Project.  But to help us focus our efforts in the coming year, we want ...
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Black Communities Won't Be Healed By Collective Victimhood

Black Communities Won’t Be Healed By Collective Victimhood

Project 21 /
"When will Black Americans relinquish the deification of victimhood?" asks Project 21 Ambassador DawnMarie Alexander Boursiquot. "When will they see themselves as more than the color of their skin and cease wearing victimization like a badge of honor?" In a commentary ...
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