Community Reinvestment Still Matters, Why Gut it More?

ACORN

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN112012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Newsday, the big Long Island, New York newspaper, reported on a three-year investigation of real estate practices in this suburb that is well-known as one of the whitest suburbs in America.   Using a classic tactic to determine such racial discrimination, they sent out 100 …

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Raising Minimum Wages, Good So Far

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       While much of the country is stuck at the level of the federal minimum wage, there are enough states and cities that have nudged the numbers up that economists and others are starting to be able to tell with certainty whether the competing claims …

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KABF Documentary is a Winner

ACORN Community Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      JT Tarpley approached us out of the blue three years ago with a wild and crazy idea.  He wanted to make a documentary about KABF, our 100,000-watt noncommercial radio station broadcasting throughout central Arkansas.  This was during the time of troubles in the wake of …

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