Saturday, August 18, 2018

The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund's board of trustees voted on Friday to phase out investments in companies that run private prisons or immigrant detention centers, saying the businesses have an outsized negative impact on minorities and the poor.


from Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2OExQrW

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