WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls Despite all of the promises that the Trump budget bill would not reduce benefits for lower income and working families, the hurt is already real. Some 770,000 children have already lost SNAP or food stamp benefits alone. Many states are warning that progress made on healthcare are also going to be …
New Orleans Dr. Alister Martin is New York City’s health commissioner, and he’s a hero of the people in my book. Even better, he’s singing our song and doing so loudly and clearly, when it comes to keeping people on Medicaid against the Trump and Republican assault of the big bad budget bill …
New Orleans Over Christmas, an obituary ran in the Wall Street Journal for an unusual doctor, named William Levis, who died in his sleep at 86, having seen patients during the last week of his life. All that was interesting enough, but what caught my attention was the fact that he ran the …