Penny Wise, Pound Foolish, but Punitive to the Poor and All People

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Wades%20World%20%20051118.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans  I happened to be sitting next to Washington University professor Mark Rank on a post-Katrina panel at Tulane University a decade or so ago.  In the intervening years Rank’s research into the real costs of poverty have become the benchmarks for assessment that the …

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Crowds on Demand

a community voice ACORN Organizing

New Orleans    Utility companies are rarely popular companies.  Entergy might be one of the least popular of the breed.  A huge part of its national business is managing nuclear power plants, rarely on the top ten favorite list for a lot of people.  Regionally, Entergy has some of those plants in Taft, Louisiana, Russellville, Arkansas, …

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ACORN Reunion and Revival Tour

ACORN

New Orleans    The Little Rock premiere screening of THE ORGANIZER documentary that looked at ACORN past, present, and future was a fascinating and unique event, where everyone there might truthfully say, “I wish you couldn’t have been there!”  Everything was going against it in some ways. It was a hot day, Saturday afternoon, and Mothers’ …

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