When it comes to corporate DEI agendas, we’ve seen a lot of apparent hypocrisy lately. One example is Verizon, the subject of a May 17 headline that announced “Verizon shuts down DEI policies for its 105,000 workers,” purportedly in exchange for the FCC’s approval of Verizon’s acquisition of Frontier, while a board member had made comments on May 14 suggesting Verizon was simply playing games with the FCC. Specifically, Axios quoted Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini on talking with the Trump administration: "You don't use certain words, like DEI, bad word. ... I sit on the Verizon board, I chair their finance committee, our DEI effort is alive and well, it's just not called that anymore."
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