EXCLUSIVE: Congress Froze $1.5 Million For Foreign LGBTQ Initiatives — But Biden-Harris Admin Is Spending It Anyways
The Biden-Harris administration plans to bypass Congress and funnel well over $1 million in taxpayer money to LGBTQ initiatives in Latin America, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) spends billions of dollars each year providing aid to various countries around the world in order to […]
Stock market today: Wall Street points higher even as China holds off on major spending initiatives – Yahoo Finance
Wall Street rose early Tuesday even as Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell more than 9% following Beijing's decline. refrained from major spending initiatives As China's economy slows down. S&P 500 futures rose 0.4% before the bell, and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 0.2%. Stocks tumbled Monday as bond yields rose, but stabilized early Tuesday, […]
Double standards on corporate diversity initiatives undermine business success
Cultivating workforces and leadership teams with diverse perspectives and backgrounds has become a priority across the U.S. business community. While government mandates around “diversity, equity, and inclusion” have garnered much attention and backlash, private sector approaches have been able to have a more constructive impact. Unfortunately, some bad actors are threatening this progress. Smart American […]
Ford becomes latest company to reject DEI initiatives, Human Rights Campaign resorts to name-calling after slew of loses
Ford Motor Co. has backtracked on some DEI initiatives after facing backlash from conservatives. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ political lobbying group in the U.S., responded to Ford's new policy with a volley of insults after being rejected recently by major corporations. On Thursday, Robbie Starbuck, a filmmaker and conservative consumer activist, Internal […]
Ford joins growing push to scale back ‘woke’ DEI initiatives
Detroit-based auto giant Ford said it was scaling back its DEI initiatives and dropping its participation in the LGBTQ-backed Corporate Equality Index, joining several other high-profile companies that have recently scaled back controversial programs, the company's president said in a statement. Robbie Starbuck, the right-wing influencer who launched a successful social media campaign to get […]
Pro-abortion ballot initiatives backed by at least half of Republicans in Arizona, Nevada
At least half of Republican voters in Arizona and Nevada say they would support a referendum protecting abortion rights in November, according to two Fox News polls released Wednesday. 50% of Republicans Arizona54 percent of Republicans Nevada According to a poll conducted Aug. 23-26, 2024, most state residents said they would vote in favor of […]
Lowe’s Dials Back DEI Initiatives Amid Conservative Pressure
Lowe's has decided to roll back some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, following apparent pressure from conservative activist Robbie Starbuck. The home improvement retailer said it would no longer participate in an investigation by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest and most progressive nonprofits. Email Starbucks also announced it would […]
Jack Daniel’s whiskey is latest iconic brand to renounce its DEI initiatives
Jack Daniel’s has lost its “mind,” feud fighter Robbie Starbuck argued to Fox News Digital on Wednesday night as he took aim at another iconic American brand. “Big news,” the filmmaking activist posted to X. “The next company I’m going to sue is @JackDaniels.” Brown-Forman, the Tennessee distiller’s parent company, “pre-announced” that it would abandon […]
Why Walloons aren’t counted as a minority in diversity initiatives
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Nasdaq recently announced that it was going to require companies listed on its stock exchange to have a set number of racial minorities, women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transsexuals on their boards of directors. Parroting the official government lingua on race, Nasdaq’s quotas for minorities were in reference to African […]
John Deere, under fire for woke initiatives, rejects DEI policies
John Deere has announced that it is eliminating nearly all of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in favor of a quality-driven work environment. The leading tractor company released a statement on its X account on Tuesday, pledging to prioritize quality and customer trust over DEI initiatives. “To all of us at John Deere, […]