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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".

Month: March 2006

Taxing with Clinton

ACORN Community Organizing Financial Justice Ideas and Issues March 20, 2006 by wade

Baton Rouge     Two advance men showed up on Thursday to start vetting locations and activities for President Clinton’s visit to Baton Rouge to help spur participation for eligible families in the earned income tax credit (EITC) program, announce the grant of $250,000 to the ACORN Tax Access Centers and applaud their work in the ten …

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The Principal of Affordable Housing

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues March 17, 2006 by wade

New York       For a long time Manhattan has been the capital of the “executive” city in the world.  One reads about prices for one-bedroom condos here and there that match the price of vast rolling estates in other parts of the country.  Not surprisingly the price of housing, for sale or for rent, has therefore …

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Outsourcing Worker Power?

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing March 14, 2006 by wade

Shreveport     The other day a small piece in The New York Times quoted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, in an intriguing — and controversial — way under the title — “outsourcing the picket line” from a piece that ran in The McKinsey Quarterly.   On the plus side he was quoted as …

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