for-profit
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The report noted that the Oakland-based healthcare system’s corporate pension, Kaiser Permanente Group Trust, holds assets in CoreCivic and the GEO Group, the two largest for-profit prison corporations in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
California privacy law specifically requires certain large for-profit companies to get consent to collect data from anyone under 16.
From Los Angeles Times
For-profit sports academies, some focusing on a single sport, are popping up from Virginia to San Diego, while private schools, home-school programs and even a public school district are adding—and aggressively marketing—holdback years.
Last month, Padilla and Sen. Adam Schiff toured a for-profit detention center in California City after reports of unsafe facilities, inadequate medical care and limited access to attorneys.
From Los Angeles Times
The firm was spun out of Emerson Collective, founded and run by Reed Jobs’s mother Laurene Powell Jobs, in 2023, and makes research grants and for-profit venture investments.
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