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".
New Orleans The on-line headline on the op-ed page called the current dominant financial practices led by private equity and the rest of the banking world as a “grift.” Dictionaries define a grift as usually a small-time swindle. When people refer to Trump as a grifter, they are thinking of bigger scandals. The …
Pearl River There have always been restrictions on what can be bought with food stamps. Booze, beer, and cigarettes have always been banned, but the new bans are extensive, arbitrary, and paternalism on steroids. Sure, sugar isn’t good for people, neither is soda pop, but is this really and truly about what’s best for …
Pearl River Everywhere you go, everything you read, combines to convince all of us that it’s a brave new world. Robots and artificial intelligence are coming and companies sing a chorus of how good it’s going to be for all of us. Listening to Local 100’s staff on our weekly roundup call made me …