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07/30/2019

Private Equity's Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office

Private Equity's Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office

According to a new report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, PE is...

07/30/2019 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Holding Wall Street Accountable
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07/29/2019

How Wall Street’s Investment in Retail Killed 600,000 Jobs

How Wall Street’s Investment in Retail Killed 600,000 Jobs

Wall Street is destroying retail jobs, according to a new study from the Center for Popular Democracy. The report found...

07/29/2019 | Footwear News | Holding Wall Street Accountable
[created] | Published by: RetailWire
07/29/2019

Is private equity ownership killing retail?

Is private equity ownership killing retail?

The report was researched and written by Jim Baker (Private Equity Stakeholder Project), Maggie Corser (Center for...

07/29/2019 | RetailWire | Holding Wall Street Accountable
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07/28/2019

The Weekend Pitch: Private equity has taken its share of hits this year

The Weekend Pitch: Private equity has taken its share of hits this year

Dubbed "Pirate Equity: How Wall Street Firms are Pillaging American Retail," the report from the Center for Popular...

07/28/2019 | Pitchbook | Holding Wall Street Accountable
[created] | Published by: Bisnow East Coast
07/28/2019

New Study, Proposal From Elizabeth Warren Scrutinize Retail's Private Equity Problem

New Study, Proposal From Elizabeth Warren Scrutinize Retail's Private Equity Problem

The Center for Popular Democracy, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Strong Economy for All Coalition,...

07/28/2019 | Bisnow East Coast | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Private Equity Should Stop Profiting From Immigration Detention Centers And Private Prisons

According to Charles Khan of the not-for-profit Center For Popular Democracy and Hedge Clippers, "The Stop Wall Street...

07/27/2019 | Forbes | Holding Wall Street Accountable
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07/27/2019

New Study Examines The Role Of Private Equity In Dismantling Retail Businesses

New Study Examines The Role Of Private Equity In Dismantling Retail Businesses

A new study shows that private equity firms have hastened the failure and liquidation of retail businesses. Host Scott...

07/27/2019 | NPR Weekend Edtion Saturday | Holding Wall Street Accountable

The workers bearing the brunt of retail’s struggles? Primarily women and people of color.

Bankruptcies, of course, also meant layoffs, including 33,000 at Toys R Us last summer and 16,000 at Payless this...

07/26/2019 | Vox | Holding Wall Street Accountable

Study Highlights The High Cost Of Private Equity Firms’ Retail Buyouts: 1.3 Million Jobs

Nearly 600,000 jobs at U.S. retailers owned by private equity firms and hedge funds have been lost in the past decade,...

07/26/2019 | Forbes | Holding Wall Street Accountable
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07/26/2019

LBOs Make (More) Companies Go Bankrupt, Research Shows

LBOs Make (More) Companies Go Bankrupt, Research Shows

Similarly, research published by worker groups including the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the Center for...

07/26/2019 | Institutional Investor | Holding Wall Street Accountable

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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