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".
Nairobi Here’s the fiction: nonprofit hospitals are dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of their community, regardless of income. Because of this fiction, the IRS grants them a tax-exemption worth approximately $28 billion per year. Here’s the fact: they don’t act that way, especially the larger nonprofit hospital chains. ACORN and our partners, Local …
Pearl River With wars in the news all around the world in Ukraine, Israel, Myanmar, Sudan, Armenia, and elsewhere, veterans were on my mind. Since war is so important to nation states, how do they really handle their veterans? This has always been a question for me. Some of my earliest organizing experiences were …
New Orleans The Community Reinvestment Act or CRA is pushing towards its 50th anniversary. ACORN was one of the many groups pushing for its passage, and the first to challenge its effectiveness before the Federal Reserve. The CRA was designed to stop redlining and increase lending in minority and lower income areas where …