Liberal activist Van Jones protested the Koch brothers outside their donor meeting in 2011. Groups funded by the billionaire-backed network had successfully clamored for his ouster as President Barack Obama’s green jobs czar two years earlier, labeling him a dangerous radical. At the 2019 Koch seminar, however, there is a giant banner with Jones’s smiling face …
Billionaire Charles Koch and a coalition of business groups on Sunday announced a push to encourage companies to hire workers with criminal records, following the recent passage of a federal prison and sentencing reform law. The influential network aligned with Koch has teamed up with the Society of Human Resources Management, the trade group for …
The biggest feather in the Koch network’s cap from 2018 was the passage of the First Step Act, a long-debated package of criminal justice reforms and prison anti-recidivism programs. The legislation aimed to ensure that a felon’s first trip to prison would be their last, and that felons can get education and training behind bars, …
Can psychology and neuroscience play a role in bridging the partisan and ideological divides in America? One of the Koch network’s lesser-known operations is the Charles Koch Foundation’s Courageous Collaborations Initiative, which supports “supporting interdisciplinary research to overcome intolerance, new models for peaceful interactions, and experiments that can heal fractured communities” – in short, studying the …
Stand Together, a nonprofit backed by the Koch family and its network, plans to give $10 to $15 million in grants in January to mark “Poverty Awareness Month.” The organization has already distributed more than $6.5 million, which leaves millions in grants yet to come. The nonprofit is funded through the Seminar Network, a group of hundreds of business leaders led by Charles Koch. The network professes a desire to remove the “internal and external barriers” that hold people back through social entrepreneurship.