Author: Scott Shepard

SEC Decisions Raise Specter of Bias, McCarthyism

SEC Decisions Raise Specter of Bias, McCarthyism

National Policy Analysis #681 /
Recent decisions and procedural changes by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) staff, taken together, threaten to make the shareholder proposal review process much less transparent and reliable, and thus much more susceptible to both the appearance and reality ...
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Fifth Third Bank Reverses Course, Reestablishes Florida Scholarship Support.  Will Others Follow?

Fifth Third Bank Reverses Course, Reestablishes Florida Scholarship Support.  Will Others Follow?

ConservativeBlog.org /
Last week we reported that a number of corporate supporters of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program had cut off funding for the program because about 15 percent of the participating parochial schools refused to accept or retain outwardly gay ...
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Banks’ Blinkered Religious Bias Hurts Poor, Fostered and Minority Children to Help No One

Banks’ Blinkered Religious Bias Hurts Poor, Fostered and Minority Children to Help No One

ConservativeBlog.org /
Wells Fargo and Fifth Third banks moved last week to cut off their charitable funding of a Florida program that allows poor children – who are mostly members of minority groups and being raised in single-parent or foster households – ...
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Covington Settlement Warns Corporations That Bias Can Cost Big Bucks

Covington Settlement Warns Corporations That Bias Can Cost Big Bucks

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
CNN and AT&T have learned expensive lessons about bias that the rest of corporate America would be wise to heed. The dangers of closed viewpoints and political partisanship are becoming costly realities for American corporations. CNN and AT&T have learned ...
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