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ESG-related bills stir discussion in Kansas 0
- Tax & Spending
- March 21, 2023
Two bills surrounding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria towards Kansas’s public investing and government activities – HB 2436 and SB 291 – have had hearings over the last few weeks. Specifically, provisions in these bills would prohibit decision-making based on ESG-criteria in government contracts, require KPERS to invest solely based on the return to
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What does ESG mean for Kansas?0
- Tax & Spending
- February 6, 2023
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this month, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said that ESG standards were necessary to “align capitalism with what society wants from it.” But this vision of social change is not as efficient as its proponents claim and pose threats to transparency and government overreach from DC to
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