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PESP Theory of Change We seek to shed light upon and demand accountability for the impacts of private equity investments on people and the planet through research, collaboration with impacted stakeholders, and engaging decision-makers to drive change.

Background The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) is a nonprofit watchdog organization focused on the growing private equity and broader private funds industry. PESP was founded in 2017 to address the growing impacts of private equity and private funds managers…

Thai workers have won the largest wage-theft settlement at a garment factory after a year-long campaign supported by international labor rights advocates. The Solidarity Center and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) announced…

On February 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced publication of a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comment on what actions, if any, the department should take under federal law to protect retirement savings and pensions from…

Private Equity Stakeholder Project Jim Baker was a recent guest on Nick Hanauer’s Pitchfork Economics podcast. Pitchfork Economics’ host Hanauer interviews economic and political thinkers in an exploration of society’s growing inequality. Baker explained the private equity’s growth and the…

A collaboration between EPI and the Shift Project, The Company Wage Tracker looks at 66 large retail and foodservice firms and shows how many workers the firms employ, how much revenue they generate in U.S. operations, how much their CEOs…

Last week Kohl’s shareholders rejected a bid from activist investors to take over the board, voting to leave the company’s board of directors intact. Earlier this year private equity firms Sycamore Partners and Leonard Green & Partners made offers…

A new report was released last week by Action Center on Race and the Economy, Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Center for Popular Democracy. “The National Rental Home Council: How America’s Largest Single-Family Landlords Put Profit Over People”…

Reporting on a Pennsylvania four-hospital system’s risk of collapse, WHYY noted that asking that he “decline to approve Prospect Medical Holdings’ proposed change of ownership until Leonard Green & Partners returns the fees and dividends it collected from Prospect.” WHYY…

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