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 »
The August shuttering of Weiss Memorial Hospital is just the latest casualty of private equity-backed hospital closures.
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Chicago Hospital’s Closure Is a Canary in Coal Mine for Corporatized Health Care Read Post »
An administrative law judge has issued a report siding with opponents of BlackRock’s acquisition of an electric utility.
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As Private Equity Comes for the Utility Sector, Minnesota Is a Test Case Read Post »
In 2024, the dental industry witnessed 161 private equity deals — the highest number of any health care industry.
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When Private Equity Firms Acquire Dental Practices, Patients Pay the Price Read Post »
This story was produced in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Jacob Njagi’s newborn son could barely breathe when he arrived in an ambulance at the emergency ward of an Avenue Group hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, in the early hours of the morning. It was June 2022—Covid-19 cases were surging—and Njagi and his […]
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How the World Bank Left African Hospital Patients “Detained” and in Crushing Debt Read Post »
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