FEP Joins Lawsuit to Take Down SEC’s Illegal Mass Data Collection Machine
Washington, D.C. - Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a complaint against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) challenging the agency's unconstitutional "Consolidated Audit Trail" (CAT). The National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is one of the plaintiffs who collectively will stand up proudly on behalf of ...
Rachel Barkley: Assisted Suicide Degrades the Value of Disabled Lives
"Laws that enable physician-assisted suicide inculcate a harmful culture for people of all types of disabilities, and they are unfortunately spreading beyond Europe and Canada to the United States," writes Able Americans Director Rachel K. Barkley in a commentary syndicated through InsideSources. "From The Netherlands to Canada, we see that ...
Horace Cooper: While Awaiting Dexter Reed Investigation, I Back the Blue
On Fox News' "Hannity," Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper joined host Sean Hannity and fellow panelist Paul Mauro in a discussion of the latest high-profile cop-involved shooting of a black man -- in this case, the shooting of Dexter Reed. While acknowledging that we still lack information and understanding regarding ...
Donna Jackson: The Biden Administration’s Biased Electric Vehicle Agenda
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s ultra-stringent vehicle emissions rule... threatens Black families struggling to reach the middle class," writes Project 21 Director of Membership Development Donna Jackson in a commentary published at FoxNews.com. "Blacks and others seeking to move up the economic ladder need affordable gasoline-powered vehicles even more than ...
Bidenflation Is “Scorching Everything in Its Path”
Bidenflation isn't going away. This week the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.5% in March from a year earlier. This measure of inflation was higher than many expected. Ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network are responding to the ...
The Shareholder Activism of Anti-Discrimination Proponents
Corporate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) policies pose "serious and potentially vast financial risks to companies in addition to being inherently discriminatory and in violation of civil rights." Thankfully the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is sounding the alarm and taking the fight directly to corporate executives. In a ...
Scott Shepard: Some Wandering Wonderings About Disney’s Odd Shareholder Vote
"[W]hen shareholders vote, the votes go to a company called Broadridge that somehow controls nearly all the voting pipes," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard in a commentary published by RealClearMarkets. So one would hope that Broadridge is a nonpartisan entity with no skin in the game. Not so, writes Scott: ...
Horace Cooper: Politicians Must Choose — Public Servant or Instagram Model? They Can’t Be Both.
On tonight's episode of "Hannity" on the Fox News Channel, Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper and host Sean Hannity were incredulous that failed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been tapped to investigate Dolton (IL) Mayor Tiffany Henyard, who has been referred to as "The Worst Mayor in America." Horace told ...
Craig DeLuz: Black and Hispanic Youths Pay the Biggest Price for Minimum Wage Hikes
While many well-meaning souls naïvely cheer over a new California law that raises the hourly wage of fast-food workers to $20/hour, Project 21 Ambassador Craig DeLuz cites a sobering statistic: "for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, employment for 16-19 year old black and Hispanic teens falls 6.6 ...
Mark Mostert: Across the Disability Community, Everyone Can Agree on More Than You Think
Supporting people with disabilities is an endeavor upon which all Americans should be able to agree, argues Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., and helping these individuals access the resources they need is an especially worthwhile pursuit. But the federal government may not be the best solution: [T]he ...
