CARES Act Investor Highlights
Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability (CARES) Act on March 27th. The largest stimulus bill ever, it includes significant provisions for retirement accounts.
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Shareholder Proposal to Amazon: Disclose Lobbying Expenses
In response to elevated lobbying activity and political spending by Amazon both at home and abroad Newground filed a shareholder proposal for a vote of all shareholders in 2020.
Over 50,000 Sign Petition Opposing SEC's Effort to Silence Shareholder Voices
A few days after SEC Chair Jay Clayton introduced proposed rule changes that would drastically curtail the rights of investors to file shareholder proposals on important environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns, CREDO Action, the advocacy arm of CREDO Mobile, posted an online petition opposing the new rules. The petition stated...
Amazon.com Workers' Shareholder Proposal Calls for Climate Action Plan
For perhaps the first time ever, current employees of Seattle tech giant Amazon.com have directly filed a shareholder proposal – one that calls on the company to disclose how it can ratchet down emissions to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.
