The Corporate Racial Equity Tracker
An in-depth accounting of the state of racial equity disclosure from the 100 largest U.S. employers – assessing how corporate America is taking concrete action to advance racial equity today.
A Running Tally of How U.S. Companies Are Advancing Racial Equity
Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue to track significant racial equity announcements and actions from companies not captured in the first iteration of our Tracker here.
P&G’s Damon Jones shares what he’s learned navigating the company’s commitment to racial equity and why he wants companies to “focus less on the perfect statement and more on actions that bring everyone together.”
While companies are highly likely to disclose baseline DEI commitments, they are much less likely to report on what actions they’re taking to advance racial equity.
New Regulations Could Mean the End of Greenwashing in Record-Breaking ESG Flows
We have seen flows into ESG funds go from roughly $5 billion to nearly $400 billion since 2015, which begs the question many have asked: what constitutes an ESG fund?
JUST Managing Director Yusuf George on CNBC Squawk Box: The Corporate Racial Equity Tracker
Listen in on our conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin on our latest initiative to advance racial equity in corporate America, and why this issue will be a core focus this proxy season.
The JUST Report: Silence Is Not An Option
“The problems that are tearing at the fabric of American society require all of us – government, business and civic society – to work together with a common purpose.”
Chart of the Week: Companies that Give More Pre-Tax Profits to Charity Tend to Have Higher ROE
In this Chart of the Week, we take a look at our charitable giving data to analyze whether there are meaningful trends around the ROE of Russell 1000 companies.
“This is the future. And we need to make that future happen as quickly as possible otherwise we’re just a caretaker of a museum,” he said.
We Need to Talk About Advancing the Minimum Wage – But in the Context of Creating Good Jobs
Good jobs – created by investing in workers’ financial health, career development, and overall well-being – must be central to the conversation around wages.
The JUST Report: Georgia On My Mind
CEOs of some of America’s largest corporations have begun to voice their opposition to what they say is restrictive legislation that makes it harder for Americans to vote.
5 of America’s Largest Public Companies Leading the Way for Women in the Workplace
These companies check all the boxes when it comes to pay parity, policies that particularly benefit mothers, and women on their board.
What concrete actions should corporate leaders prioritize to ensure a movement toward greater racial equity in the workplace and beyond?
Chart of the Week: Climate Change Is Increasingly Driving Investment Policy
This week, we highlight how investment strategies are rapidly realigning to account for climate change.
JUST and the Head of CECEP will talk with Nick about how he led a cultural transformation to engage employees, enhance diversity, and increase transparency around key human capital issues.
The JUST Report: These Are The Companies That Are Best For Women
Pay equity mattered a lot to the public before the pandemic, and it matters even more now.
With only one-fifth of America’s largest companies disclosing that they conducted a pay equity analysis, it’s clear that this issue must remain in focus for corporate America as we build back from COVID-19.
The JUST Report: Did Stakeholder Capitalism Get the Pink Slip?
This week, Emmanuel Faber, one of the world’s foremost proponents of stakeholder capitalism, lost his job as CEO and chairman of Danone. The easy reaction would be to see this as a blow for proponents of the stakeholder cause. That would be a mistake.
Why EEO-1 Disclosure Is a Way to Hold Companies Accountable for Racial Equity Commitments
We look at why, as PwC’s US chair Tim Ryan put it, now is an ideal time for corporate leaders to disclose EEO-1 Report data to accompany their recent commitments to racial equity.
Chart of the Week: ESG ETF Costs Present an Opportunity for The Next Frontier of Indexing
This week’s chart from the Wall Street Journal explores the recent tidal wave of ESG funds and dives into the average expense ratios of U.S. equity ETFs.
Demographics disclosure is on the rise across corporate America, and so we looked at the data and discovered women are largely underrepresented compared to the working population, as are non-White and non-Asian workers.
The EEO-1 form has rapidly become the gold standard of disclosure, and the numbers and metrics within it reveal a picture of the state of gender and racial diversity at America’s largest companies
The Future of ESG is Customized, Personalized, and Values-Driven
More investors are recognizing that investing can serve a dual purpose – to both reach financial goals and to perpetuate core values by supporting companies doing right by all shareholders.
A Year Into the Pandemic, Hope in the C-Suite and Concern on the Frontlines
CEOs are a notoriously optimistic bunch. But even so, their views contrast sharply with those of their workers, who have a decidedly different take on the situation.
The past year revealed why a just economy that works for all Americans is more important than ever.
