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/2020/06/CN06122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The coronavirus pandemic continues unabated as it rises and falls from state to state and country to country. Healthcare institutions have been bent, but largely not broken in the United States. Meanwhile experts are divided on whether by the end of the year we will …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans All around the world this is a familiar story, often marking the beginning of the end for dictators, autocrats, and even elected leaders that have outstayed their peoples’ welcome. There’s a direct correlation, approaching an iron law, in so many countries that when popular …
New Orleans What could possibly be good about a pandemic? OK, not much, but…there are some things that have turned out to be a complete win. The one that I hear over and over again is the huge benefits that supplemental unemployment has brought to people who were underemployed or unemployed. For many, it …