Category: Free Enterprise Project

DEI loses

Stefan Padfield: Over 90% of Shareholders Reject DEI*

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"Apply a healthy dose of skepticism the next time you see a headline proclaiming that over 90% of shareholders support DEI because an anti-DEI proposal was defeated by that margin," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield in a ...
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Stefan Padfield: Is Dell Too Woke For Federal Government Work?

Stefan Padfield: Is Dell Too Woke For Federal Government Work?

FEP Commentary /
Dell's unrepentant wokism, despite President Trump's clear anti-woke directives, risks the technology company's government contracts and makes it a tasty target for any Dell employees willing to blow the whistle on its destructive policies, notes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director ...
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SEC

Bennett Nuss: Guiding Neutrality at the Securities and Exchange Commission

FEP Commentary /
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's aim to be "a federal body independent of both market capriciousness and direct control of any single political branch," its mission was politically motivated from the start, notes Free Enterprise Project Associate Bennett ...
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Biased CBS Broadcasts Lead Shareholders to Call for Viewpoint Protections at Paramount

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Washington, D.C. -- At today's annual shareholder meeting of Paramount Global, parent company of CBS Broadcasting, a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal questioning why diverse viewpoints and ideologies ...
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Mastercard

Shareholders Challenge Mastercard’s Risky DEI Goals

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Washington, D.C. – At today’s annual meeting of Mastercard shareholders, a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) presented a proposal opposing Mastercard’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) agenda. “Mastercard apparently continues to have ...
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Supreme Court

Bennett Nuss: Supreme Court Reaffirms That There Are No Special Categories of Discrimination

FEP Commentary /
Reverse discrimination is still discrimination, and a recent Supreme Court decision backs up that assertion. In a commentary published at Legal Reader, Free Enterprise Project Associate Bennett Nuss analyzes SCOTUS's Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Servs opinion and how ...
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Stefan Padfield: Are CVS, Mondelez and McDonald’s Silencing Shareholders?

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"Companies may be using virtual meetings to undermine a critical component of corporate governance," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. Many companies have not returned to in-person shareholder meetings after their meetings ...
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National Center Honored with NCLA Award for Client Bravery

Free Enterprise Project /
We're beyond honored to be chosen by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) to receive this year's George Washington Award for Client Bravery. At an NCLA event this week in Washington, D.C., Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Executive Director Stefan Padfield ...
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Target

Target Praised By Shareholders For Backing Away From DEI

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Washington, D.C. -- Target Corporation was intended to be a target today for shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP), but when an FEP representative presents a shareholder proposal at today's annual shareholder ...
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Caterpillar’s DEI Metamorphosis Evolves After National Center Proposal

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Shareholder Activists Also Urge American Airlines and Best Buy to Fly Away From HRC Washington, D.C. -- Over the next four days, shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present shareholder proposals ...
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The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.