Tag: FEP Commentary

Trump Apple DEI

Stefan Padfield: Is Apple’s DEI Program One of the Nine Worst?

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In his executive order targeting DEI, President Trump directed now-Attorney General Pam Bondi to “identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations.” "Should Apple be one of those nine?" asked Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Executive Director ...
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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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Diversity DEI discrimination

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: 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: 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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Stefan Padfield: Five Falsehoods About the Anti-ESG Movement

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Are those of us who oppose ESG really what the leftists make us out to be -- homophobic, racist, anti-science, hateful and greedy?   In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Director Stefan Padfield corrects five misrepresentations about ...
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Stefan Padfield: Woke Inc. and ESG

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"In practice, you will find no light between the typical ESG platform and the governance wish list of Elizabeth Warren," Free Enterprise Project Director Stefan Padfield writes in a commentary syndicated through InsideSources. "ESG is, in practice, a Trojan horse ...
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Scott Shepard: Coca-Cola Has Done Opponents of DEI and ESG a Huge Favor

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"The Coca-Cola corporation has adopted a plan to revert back to racial discrimination against non-whites after discriminating in favor of non-whites for at least the last half decade," National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard reveals in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. Of ...
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Scott Shepard: Jack & Harley Discriminate Against White Male Key Demographic Under Big 3 Pressure

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In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard pulls back the curtain on the ESG agenda of what he calls "the Great Fiduciary Breach Machines," and "most preposterously the perversion of it popping up at Harley-Davidson ...
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Stefan Padfield: Enhanced Scrutiny and the Omnipresent Specter of Political Bias

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What can we do if corporate decision-makers have become so committed to -- or even blinded by -- their political tribalism and activist mindset that they are creating actionable conflicts of interest within their own companies? In a commentary posted ...
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