Economic Equality
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ESG: Why Social Investing is the Next Big Thing
Tags Share ESG factors, which measure a company’s commitment to environmental, social, and governance issues, have become critical to understanding a company’s performance. Because of the risks posed by climate change, most metrics have focused on the ‘E.’ But today, the pandemic and growing demands for racial justice have put a greater emphasis on the…
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RFK Human Rights Partners With Skytop Strategies
The new partnership further extends RFK Human Rights’ global network, engaging a new community of business leaders on practices that prioritize the public good.
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U.S. Should Follow EU’s Lead on ESG Policy
New ESG disclosure rules in Europe demonstrate yet again that the U.S. is lagging behind in important financial decisions.
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Labor Department’s Rule on ESG Investing Creates a New Hurdle for Retirees
A crucial change to how private pension plans operate could have profound consequences for your 401(k).
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Racial Equity Investing Helps Bridge Wealth Gap
Tags Share Institutional investors who are troubled by the economic disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. don’t have to settle for the status quo. They can take action by investing their portfolios in ways that help undo those structural inequities. This call to action was one of the solutions institutional investors offered…
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Private Equity Firms Reevaluate Priorities
Tags Share Private equity executives who gathered at the RFK Compass Investor Virtual Summit in October described a year of challenges and opportunities that have inspired them to reflect on and reevaluate their priorities. On the bright side, private equity firms’ worst-case scenarios did not come to fruition, and many of their portfolio companies weathered…
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Are You Enabling Surveillance Capitalism in Your Portfolio?
Tags Share From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, companies of all sorts are looking to collect and monetize information about you, ranging from your whereabouts to your shopping behavior to your email habits. Welcome to the world of surveillance capitalism. It’s a term every investor…
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Access and Opportunity
Tags Share Social and economic devastation arising from the worst global public health crisis in a century coupled with outrage over prevalent systemic racism across America has led to increasing pressure across societal sectors to do better to embrace and reflect the diversity purportedly at the heart of American values. The political world saw this…
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Letter to Congress Urges More COVID-19 International Aid
We’re asking the U.S. government to provide $12 billion to Latin America and Caribbean regions that desperately need aid.
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Lack of Diversity, Transparency Across Charitable Foundations
With public accountability comes a greater commitment to human rights and social equity in the investment process.
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Tour of the Mississippi Delta
Description Robert F. Kennedy during a tour of the Mississippi Delta in April 1967, as part of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment Manpower and Poverty examination of war on poverty programs. Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), for a…
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Tour of the Mississippi Delta
Description Robert F. Kennedy during a tour of the Mississippi Delta in April 1967, as part of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment Manpower and Poverty examination of war on poverty programs. Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), for a…
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