While millions suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic and economic disaster, America’s billionaires are retreating to their luxurious enclaves and super yachts as their wealth soars.
Gin Armstrong
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The Billionaires Behind the Crisis: How the Rich & Powerful Put Their Wealth Above Public Health
These are some of the billionaires hoarding wealth while endangering workers and seeking to profit off the crisis. Some may be from your own state.
Day 1 Alliance Formed to Back Up Private Prison Industry
Private prisons are going on the offensive with a new industry advocacy organization.
Not Just Exxon: Paul Weiss’s Addiction to Defending Rogue Corporate Actors
Law students are calling on Paul Weiss to #DropExxon as a legal client. From the Sacklers to Big Tobacco, the law firm has also defended a host of other toxic corporate actors.
Growing Protest Movement Exposes Alignment Between Elites & Art Museums
Corporate elites who rake in dirty profits use board seats at prestigious cultural institutions to burnish their reputations. Now they’re being called out by a growing movement.
Here are the Corporate Backers of School Privatization that Striking Arkansas Teachers are Up Against
A well-funded network, with the billionaire Walton family at its center, is driving the school privatization agenda that striking teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas are up against.
GM workers strike for fair pay as executives and investors extract billions from the company
Nearly 50,000 GM workers are striking for better pay and job security as executives and financiers benefit from record profits.
Wall Street Billionaires Set to Mingle with Mike Pence at Major Financial Conference
Top Wall Street leaders who profit off of everything from fossil fuels to widespread austerity are set to hobnob with Mike Pence at a major financial conference.
Private Prisons Now Face 87.4% Financing Gap as Banks Continue to Flee Industry
Eight banks have committed to ending their future financing of the private prison industry – amounting to 87.4% of the credit lines and term loans of CoreCivic and GEO Group.
Bank of America Says It Will Stop Financing Private Prisons & Detention Centers. So Should SunTrust.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase have said they’ll stop financing private prisons and detention centers. Will SunTrust do the same?
Big Donors Fuel Racist, Islamophobic Agenda in Small Town Minnesota
A recent NYT article profiled a small town hate group in Minnesota. But Wall Street firms & corporate charities are propping up the Islamophobic agenda that is fueling the group’s racist, anti-Muslim efforts.
These are the Millionaire CEOs Whose Corporations Fund Politicians Banning Abortions
Six major corporations are top donors to the politicians behind the recent wave of anti-abortion legislation. Their wealthy CEOs should be held to account.