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  1. This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

    If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
    "Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
    "We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

    Hettie O’Brien: youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

    #mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

  2. After stalling #Biden era $180 Billion #StudentLoan forgiveness program, a court challenge by American Federation of #Teachers sees #Drumpf admin finally acknowledge a fraction of those previously eligible... A new #agreement allows the #DOE to resume processing forgiveness for specific fraction of borrowers enrolled in Income-Contingent Repayment (#IDR), Pay As You Earn (#PAYE) and the #PublicService #LoanForgiveness (#PSLF) programs. Read deets to see if you, or someone you know in an eligible #edu field can now qualify for any #debt reduction or #TaxBreaks. Currently Americans as a whole, are saddled with almost $2 TRILLION in student loan debts.

    msn.com/en-us/money/careersand

  3. Senator Bernie Sanders' report unveils the alarming consequences of GOP budget cuts to Medicaid, claiming 19 Americans would lose health coverage for every millionaire benefiting from tax breaks. Healthcare professionals warn that these cuts could lead to unnecessary deaths, especially among vulnerable groups. Sanders argues that this legislation is a "death sentence" for low-income families and insists healthcare should be a universal right. Read more here: alternet.org/trump-mike-johnso #GOPBudget #Healthcare #BernieSanders #MedicaidCuts #TaxBreaks #PublicHealth #SocialSafetyNet

  4. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  5. We also like how he talked about the #embeddedEnergy in the existing #housingStock and #officeSpace.

    He points to how industry is encouraged to #waste due to govts giving #taxBreaks and other #perks for #newBuilds, rather than encouraging #developers to #refurbish or #renovate existing #heritage and #realEstate.

    It has a terrible impact on our #carbonFootprint - but is great for #GDP!

    If you're concerned with #sustainability you need to know the effects of #overdevelopment.