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 rigged deck of the Trump’s big bad budget bill was the terrible tradeoff that will force the poor to subsidize the rich by extending and enlarging their tax breaks and favored treatments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the galloping growth in the list of billionaires. Sure, we are afflicted …
Pearl River There are two “NRAs” that swing big sticks around the US, pushing bad policy for people and workers. The dangerously effective and scandal-ridden National Rifle Association is perhaps the best known, but the National Restaurant Association, another NRA, is quieter and more comfortable on the back pages and the back rooms, …
New Orleans Ironically, as much as some on the right abhorred people wearing masks only short years ago in the time of Covid, they seem to be of two minds about the issue of masks in the time of Trump. It’s impossible to find anything good to say about the current immigration raids, …