New Orleans Recently I listened to the presentation of a fine group of graduate students at the School of Social Work at Georgia State University that summarized the results of four months of work in collaboration with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign. The report indicated the results were mixed. Our contact and outreach goals were …
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Welfare, Just the Facts, Ma’am
New Orleans Trump’s aides in trying to explain the president’s feelings about cutting away more of what is left of the safety net including food stamps and housing subsidies as well as his support for work requirements on those programs and Medicaid say that he calls them all “welfare,” a word that he sees as …
Taking Class to Class
St. Petersburg While talking to former ACORN organizers and canvassers, long departed staff, and regular folks with sundry ideas and aspirations after the Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida where THE ORGANIZER had shown, thoughts kept rattling in the back of my mind from my radio interview on Wade’s World with Betsy Leondar-Wright, her …