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".
New Orleans I had mixed feelings when I opened The New Yorker when I saw there was a long piece by Patrick Radden Keefe with the eyebrow “Letter from New Orleans.” On one hand, it was crack, there was no way that I wasn’t excited to read whatever it might have been about. …
New Orleans In another prime example of absurdity, Trump recently categorically dismissed the importance of child care. This was his George Bush the first moment, when that president was clueless in the grocery store aisle about how the world worked for ordinary Americans. It’s reasonable to assume that Trump is as clueless about …
New Orleans Sometimes you just have to scratch your head and wonder what’s happening when it doesn’t add up to expectations and usual information. I had that feeling as I read several things about the economy recently. On one hand, contrary to a lot of talk from the White House, the US has …