Weatherization Not Worth It? Say It’s Not So!

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

Little Rock    For forty years, home weatherization has been one of those gold standard programs supposedly benefiting lower income families by tightening up their houses to the elements and thereby allowing them to save money on heating and electric bills. We have endorsed these programs, advocated them, and even participated in them over the years, …

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North Carolina is Showing the Way in Fighting for Rural Hospitals

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

New Orleans   For all of the continuing polarization in Congress over Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the “last stand in the hospital door” strategy of one Republican governor after another, there are realities in the heartland of the Republican base that some of the politicians are continuing to miss from their sky high perches as …

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Making an Organizing Plan for a Domestic Workers Association in Morocco

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice International

Grenoble One of my more exciting and interesting tasks during my week of working in France with ACORN’s affiliate, Alliance Citoyenne, and our partner, ReAct, was spending hours of speculation on how we would make an organizing plan to build an association of domestic workers, including heavily exploited migrants, in Morocco. This work never gets …

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