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Elizabeth Warren: “Teachers and firefighters are being asked to take money out of their retirements to pad the pockets of private equity…”

On the recordOctober 19, 2021
Teachers and firefighters are being asked to take money out of their retirements to pad the pockets of private equity billionaires, and they are not even getting the above-average market returns that they thought that they were paying for.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the impact of private equity on retirement funds for public workers.

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