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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 2021

Beating the Taxman and Making the Rich Pay

Ideas and Issues March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 by Chief Organizer

March 28, 2021 Pearl River     A bunch of researchers led by the London School of Economics, allowed access to Internal Revenue Service tax reporting data, issued a report card on how well the rich were doing in dealing with the taxman. The short summary is that are winning even bigger than we – and the …

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Making Poverty Myths Face the Facts

Ideas and Issues March 29, 2021May 6, 2021 by Chief Organizer

March 27, 2021 Pearl River     I first met Mark Rank, professor of social welfare at Washington University in St. Louis, when we were both panelists at a forum at Loyola University in New Orleans evaluating the impact of Katrina on New Orleans. It was clear from his research then, more than fifteen years ago, that …

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Money and the Movement in the Case of Black Lives Matter

Ideas and Issues March 26, 2021 by Chief Organizer

March 26, 2021   Little Rock      The Associated Press it what it described as an “exclusive,” reported recently on information it had received from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the chief recipient of massive levels of donations, large and small, following the protests in 2020 over the George Floyd killing by police. In …

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