Community Organizations and Unions are Key to Upward Mobility

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New Orleans    Sometimes at ACORN’s annual legislative conferences in Washington, DC, I would be just in and out, but one time I overlapped a contentious session between Harvard’s Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame and ACORN leaders and members. The members were arguing that their experience with ACORN and their local community organizations in their …

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China May Drop the Stock Market, but India is in Turmoil

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Kiln, Mississippi     So when we read on reputed news agencies like Forex Academy on all the big whoops worrying about their 10ks, plummeting stocks on Wall Street, and whether or not the Fed raises interest rates in Wyoming, what are the rest of us supposed to do? We have grown men and women believing in …

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