Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.
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Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers Read Post »
Big banks saw their stocks skyrocket by 29 percent during Trump’s first year. Here’s who else cashed in.
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Who Gained the Most During Trump’s First Year? Billionaires and Corporations. Read Post »
Trump’s proposal to ban institutional investors from buying homes won’t make up for damage of tariffs and deportations.
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Trump’s “Homes for People” Plan Distracts From Failing Policies, Experts Say Read Post »
A private equity-owned chain aims to use the bankruptcy process to avoid obligations to residents and workers.
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Will Nursing Home Chain Be Off the Hook for Paying Injury and Death Settlements? Read Post »
The seizure of public utilities for the sake of profit may lead to a disaster for consumers — and the planet.
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Data Centers Devour Electricity. Private Equity Is Buying Utilities to Cash In. Read Post »
The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.
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Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers Read Post »
By the spring of 2022, Ed Aldag was fed up. The 61-year-old CEO of a multibillion-dollar real estate company called Medical Properties Trust, Aldag is a high-society fixture in the company’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where MPT has donated millions to local nonprofits and where he’s regularly listed as one of the city’s most influential […]
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The Secret Campaign to Silence Critics of a Hospital Real Estate Empire Read Post »
Research shows that private equity acquisitions raise costs and can lead to deterioration in patient care.
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As Federal Action Stalls, States Aim to Curb Private Equity Greed in Health Care Read Post »
Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.
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23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises Read Post »
Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.
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Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord Read Post »
As for-profit corporations buy up psychiatric hospitals, some flout federal law with scarce repercussions.
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Private Equity Firms See Psychiatric Hospitals as Profit Opportunities Read Post »
More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.
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What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire Read Post »
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