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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: October 2013

The Digital Divide is Also Crippling Obamacare Enrollment

Financial Justice Health Care October 31, 2013 by digital

Little Rock  For all of the criticism of the on-line tools and what Secretary of HHS Sebelius has now called the “debacle” of the web access for enrollment for the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, the 800 pound gorilla in the room is still sitting on the digital divide.  First, we have huge numbers of …

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JP Morgan Chase Gaming on Big Settlement

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure October 30, 2013December 16, 2020 by digital

Little Rock  Ok, you remember that we were skeptical when news of the $13 billion record breaking settlement between JP Morgan Chase and the Justice Department was announced until the details became clearer.  I just wasn’t sure the leopard could change its spots by buying a new paint job no matter what the price.  Now, …

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Microcredit is Still a “Buy a Subsistence Job” Program

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice October 29, 2013 by digital

Little Rock    There was a long, hopeful report on the supposed growth of microcredit among lower income families in the United States in the New York Times, but no matter how much slipping and falling we might have endured around invisible statistics, there was no way to avoid the bottom line conclusion that microcredit was …

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