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".
Pearl River The bureaucratic and technical challenges of modern life are creating immense gaps between people and institutions. Simply saying the digital divide is a problem between rich and poor, between the old and young, and between urban and rural isn’t adequate as a way to understand paths forward that create equity. Worse, these divides …
Pearl River Where there are renters or homeowners, there are going to be evictions. Agreements with landlords, banks or mortgage companies are serious, when entered in good faith, but that’s not always the case, either in the beginning at move in or at the end at push out. For tenants, we’ve fought successfully in several …
Pearl River Old people are suddenly news. Not just because so many old people are holding onto power in one country after another like the US, China, and India, even as younger men and women take charge elsewhere, but because in places like France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the oldies have huge …