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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Reading about Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his Opportunity Atlas, led me to check it out. The overarching lesson of the atlas is that your chances of doing better, in other words social and economic mobility, are tracked closely to you state, city, and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN partnered with Ken Reardon and his team from various universities that he mobilized for the recovery after Katrina to create the Peoples’ Plan for the Ninth Ward. His students and volunteers surveyed every property and assessed the level of damage and whether or …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN International has done several reports over the years stating our position clearly: microfinance is not a poverty reduction program. Doing so, we knew we were running way outside the herd of the prevailing donor-based and donor-funded consensus, but facts are facts. Debt doesn’t …