Category: Free Enterprise Project

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Stefan Padfield: No, 98% of Costco’s Shareholders Don’t Support DEI

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"Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen many of the celebratory headlines posted by defenders of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) proclaiming that the recent Costco shareholder vote showed that 98% of Costco shareholders support DEI. That’s ...
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United Resumes Flights to Israel After Pressure from Shareholders

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Washington, D.C. -- After receiving a books and records request from the National Center for Public Policy Research related to United Airlines' suspension of flights to Israel, United will "resume flights between New York and Tel Aviv on March 18," ...
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Stefan Padfield: The Excuses For DEI Programs Get Worse and Worse

Corporations have often justified their discriminatory DEI programs by claiming that forced diversity is good for business. In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield debunks that claim: Where is the data showing forced diversity ...
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Costco Packs Big Discrimination Into Big Box Store

At Annual Meeting, Costco Refuses to Join Others Retreating From DEI Washington, D.C. – Despite public outcry, Costco shareholders failed yesterday to approve a shareholder proposal (Proposal 4) presented from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ...
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National Center Withdraws AT&T DEI Shareholder Proposal After Successful Negotiation

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Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) and AT&T negotiated a withdrawal of a National Center shareholder proposal seeking information about the telecommunications company’s supplier expectations surrounding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ...
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Stefan Padfield: DEI Is the Problem

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"In light of recent research finding that 'DEI may escalate workplace hostility and racial bias,' [Paolo] Gaudiano’s claim that anti-DEI activists seek to foment anger and polarization appears to be pure projection," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield ...
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Stefan Padfield: Mark Zuckerberg Acted Like a Good Capitalist By Responding to Calls for Free Speech

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The times, they are a-changing, as our nation prepares to welcome Donald Trump back to the Oval Office. And this week we learned that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is apparently making big changes to Facebook in response to the election ...
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Stefan Padfield: Prediction: Costco’s Race-Focused DEI Programs Won’t See 2026

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While dozens of companies are abandoning their DEI goals under public pressure, big-box retailer Costco has announced its plans to simply dig its plus-sized heels deeper into the soil of racism. In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project ...
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Stefan Padfield Named as Free Enterprise Project’s New Executive Director

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We are delighted to announce that Stefan Padfield has been named as the new executive director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP). Stefan, who joined the FEP team in 2023, previously spent over 15 years teaching law at ...
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Stefan Padfield: Corporations Clinging To DEI Will Lose Social License to Operate

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In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Stefan Padfield reflects on FEP's recent legal victory over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and on what the court's "judicial rebuke of Nasdaq's diversity rule" makes clear: ...

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