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 For years, I have harped on the need to make “maximum feasible participation” an emphasis on delivery of all governmental benefit programs. The pandemic has heightened visibility of the gap between eligibility in target populations and distribution of approved and legislated benefits to the populations. In the United States, we see …
New Orleans Well, well, David Card, Professor of Economics at Berkeley, won a share of the Nobel Prize for work he did with the late Alan Kruger, on the minimum wage. The Nobel folks talk about all three US-based economists as part of the same tribe, because they demonstrated a different way to …
New Orleans I used to watch football and basketball games from time to time, actually a lot of time. Pre-pandemic, I became addicted to going to the gym, jumping on the elliptical machine daily, reading my Kindle, and watch-listening to whatever game was on ESPN the whole time. Over the years, I have more and more sworn off …