Cleveland The ACORN National Board met in Ohio anxiously to hear the report on the prospects for the four state initiatives to raise the minimum wage that ACORN has supported and carried forward in Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio. Marty Keith, the chair of Ohio ACORN, Zach Polett, the ACORN National Political Director, and the …
Month: October 2006
Getting the Lead Out
Cleveland The ACORN National Board met for its fall meeting in Cleveland in order to be close to the fight to raise the minimum wage in Ohio from $5.15 per hour to $6.85 per hour. But, before that the leadership had a number of other pieces of business. One had the top elected leaders continuing …
Good Business?
Tucson Almost 200 largely progressive business people were looking up at the dias for the opening session of the Social Venture Network where the topic was “Pioneering a Just Economy,” and I was wondering what in the world I was doing here? Melissa Bradley, the incoming chair of SVN, and a fellow Tides Foundation board …