In this 23-page report, NLPC Associate Fellow Fred N. Sauer looks at Wind Capital Group (WCG), a St. Louis-based company that has been the recipient of Obama administration stimulus funding, as well as other significant tax credits and subsidies. WCG was founded in 2005 by Tom Carnahan, son of the late Missouri Democratic Governor Mel […]
Special Reports
Periodically, NLPC’s staff releases comprehensive reports about certain subjects that our main project areas analyze. The reports are listed and summarized on this page.
We make PDFs of each report available for download.
SPECIAL REPORT: Why Immelt Needs Obama: General Electric Is a Bank, and It’s Too Big to Fail
NLPC Associate Fellow Fred N. Sauer asserts that General Electric is no longer a great industrial company, but is now dominated by its General Electric Capital Services (GECS) division. Contrary to the conventional wisdom of the financial media that GECS has been GE’s strength in recent years, Sauer argues that GECS is dangerously reliant on […]
SPECIAL REPORT: The Big Labor Stranglehold: Killing Jobs & Hurting America
Authored by Carl Horowitz, director of NLPC’s Organized Labor Accountability Project, this Special Report examines the effect labor unions have on the workforce. As the recent events in Wisconsin showed, labor unions and their political alliies are as influential as ever. Unless major changes are made to the ways they function within the public sector, […]
New NLPC Special Report Exposes the Real Al Sharpton
NLPC today released a special report titled Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton’s Rise to Respectability. It is a thorough examination of the character, career and impact of the controversial Reverend by Dr. Carl Horowitz of the NLPC staff. Click here or on the cover to the right to download a 50-page pdf version. Sharpton has been […]
SPECIAL REPORT: The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: The Religious Left vs. Health Care Markets
In this report published in August 2008, Dr. Carl Horowitz analyzes ICCR’s increasingly effective tactics, and the lack of will by shortsighted executives who submit to the demands of anti-business activists. Click here or on the cover to the right to download a 32-page pdf. ICCR is a nonprofit coalition with a claimed membership of […]
SPECIAL REPORT: Wal-Mart Embraces Controversial Causes: Bid to Appease Liberal Interest Groups Will Likely Fail, Hurt Business
Published in 2006 and updated in 2008, “Wal-Mart Embraces Controversial Causes: Bid to Appease Liberal Interest Groups Will Likely Fail, Hurt Business” was written by NLPC Director of Policy John Carlisle. Click here or its cover to the right to download the 24-page pdf version. The Report details Wal-Mart’s journey from a company that embodied […]
The Case Against Slave Reparations
This 48-page monograph was written by NLPC President Peter Flaherty and NLPC Director of Policy John Carlisle. First published in 2004, it was extensively updated in 2008. NLPC recently gave permission to Cengage Learning to reprint pages 18-20 in a forthcoming book titled Global Viewpoints: Slavery. Click here or on the cover to the right […]
SPECIAL REPORT: How the Federal Government Subsidizes AARP
Published in January 2007, this Special Report by John Carlisle examined taxpayer support for AARP. The study found that federal funding accounted for $83 million, or about 10 percent, of AARP’s annual revenue of $878 million. AARP’s total assets are worth $1.6 billion. Click here to download Report. On February 7, 2007, NLPC sent a […]
SPECIAL REPORT: The Authoritarian Roots of Corporate Diversity Training: Jane Elliott’s Captive Eyes and Minds
Published in July 2007, the report compares “diversity training” to thought control. Click here or on the cover to the right to download the 16-page pdf version. “Diversity training” is a term that describes a brief, but intensive program of lectures, presentation of written and audio-visual materials, and perhaps most ominously, participation in role-playing exercises, […]
SPECIAL REPORT: Soros Groups Receive Taxpayer Funds
Published in September 2007, this Special Report by John Carlisle is subtitled “State Department Collaborates in Skirting U.S. Law Against Promoting Drug Use and Prostitution.” The Report is based on documents obtained by NLPC through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Between 2001 and 2007, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded grants […]