for profit
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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.
One non-Apollo investment was a $34 million stake in a for-profit education company co-founded by Michael Milken, whom Black previously worked with at the now-defunct investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.
She joined Dow Jones Newswires in 2007, first writing breaking corporate news and then covering for-profit colleges, student lenders, alcohol and tobacco.
The company’s better-than expected earnings were propelled by its new deal with OpenAI, signed in October as part of a restructuring the startup completed to create a for-profit arm.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.