New Orleans If we want to make a difference in income inequality, there are some easy and accessible first steps that we can take and one of them is to lower the digital divide. ACORN Canada released a report based on a survey of 400 of our nearly 80,000 members across the country, and it …
Category: ACORN
ACORN in Delhi Offers Alternatives to the “Sleep Mafia”
New Orleans It is not every day when the work of ACORN and its affiliates is written between the lines of major stories in The New York Times, but recently that was the case in a glaring, tragic story about the so-called “sleep mafia” in Delhi. The story of privatized sleep follows a familiar pattern …
Labor’s Depressing Data and the Contradictions Lying in Our Huge Potential
New Orleans Over the last week I found it hard and frustrating to come up with a coherent picture of the current predicament of the labor movement both here and yon. Talking to a long tenured colleague at the Change to Win federation in the USA, my brother remarked soberly that private sector union density …