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The Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the Cornell ILR Worker Institute hosted an online forum on October 21 that featured workers employed by private equity-owned companies, speaking out about how they are standing up and fighting for good jobs. …
The New Yorker has reported on another industry in which private equity has been quietly investing. According to the outlet: In the past five years, private-equity firms have acquired dozens of disaster-restoration companies. In 2019, Blackstone, one of the world’s…
The New Republic reported that “actual private equity investments frequently don’t align with their climate-friendly public posturing.” The New Republic, October 14, 2021: Private Equity Is Quietly Keeping Fossil Fuel Companies in Business Covering the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s…
Since the start of the pandemic, private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict more than 124,000 families in counties throughout Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada. These eviction actions took place despite the existence of…
The Toronto Star reported how the top executive of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP), which manages the retirement funds of most Canadian federal employees, defended a controversial $700 million investment with private equity firm Pretium Partners in single-family…
Four private equity-owned mobile home companies were the subject of a recent investigative report by the Denver Post. Denver Post, September 23, 2021: Four corporate owners generate a quarter of complaints from Colorado’s mobile home residents They include RHP…
At a time when Maine and the country are taking actions to reduce fossil fuels in the face of climate change, with a gubernatorial climate action plan aiming to reach 80 percent renewable energy statewide by 2030, the Bangor…
From our testimony for the Senate Banking Committee hearing on “How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market”: WHY ARE MASSIVE INVESTORS BUYING INTO MANUFACTURED HOMES NOW? Over the past 20 years, manufactured home communities increasingly have gone…
The Stop Wall Street Looting Act and other reforms are critical to address the growing impacts that private equity firms have on workers, tenants, healthcare consumers, communities and climate change. In recent years, the private equity industry has grown dramatically. …
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) has submitted testimony for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Economic Policy Subcommittee October 20 hearing: “Protecting Companies and Communities from Private Equity Abuse.” PESP’s written testimony for the US Senate Banking…
Bloomberg investigated how PetSmart employees have been reporting unsafe conditions throughout the pandemic, including shortages of personal protective equipment and their lack of paid sick leave. Bloomberg, September 30, 2021: PetSmart Investors Prodded by Labor Group Over Worker Safety…
