The majority of the country’s top 100 companies received failing grades when it came to supporting pro-democracy policies, according to a new report.
On that list, major brand names that impact most daily lives of voters, including three big Michigan based companies and dozens of others with large economic footprints in the state.
The companies were graded on an A-F scale, based on 14 different points including expressed public opposition to the January 6th insurrection on the US Capitol, has a company taken action or a stance on voting rights legislation encouraging access to voting and is the company being transparent about their political donations.
“There obviously, is a lot of work to do for companies to you know, match their rhetoric with their actions for democratic like towards democracy,” Tony Carrk, the executive director of Accountable.US, the non-profit group behind the scorecard.
The grades, however, are not good. Two-thirds of the companies on the list received an F. Among them, Dearborn and Detroit based Ford and GM, respectively.
Dow chemical, headquartered in Midland, received a “D”. There were other companies with major footprints in Michigan including Pfizer, which has a plant in Portage,