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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…
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…
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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Kaiser Health News (KHN) reported how from 2010 to 2019, there was a large increase in private equity companies buying up nursing homes, along with other investments in healthcare – anywhere from 5% to 11% of nursing homes nationwide.
In 2019, KKR bought BrightSpring Health Services, one of the nation’s largest group home operators, “consisting of more than 600 residential facilities serving thousands of people with severe intellectual or developmental disabilities, some of whom cannot speak, wash, or feed…
Demand for mental health services is rising as more people deal with pandemic-related challenges, “making the sector ripe for investment.” The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that “Venture capitalists and private-equity firms are pouring billions of dollars into mental-health…
Resilience Force’s Saket Soni, and other allied investors and stakeholders helped lead a March 31 briefing and strategy session, “Climate Resilience and Risk” on workers’ rights and climate disasters. Resilience Force organizer LaTanja Sylvester shared with investors, “These…
Oaktree Capital has been named in reports of alleged illicit Iranian oil smuggling in possible violation of sanctions, in addition to the private equity firm’s extensive portfolio of oil and gas investments. A non-profit organization that monitors Iran identified…
