WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, has suddenly in an about-face announced that it will be opening 100 new branches in lower income areas, including in underserved urban and rural areas. Furthermore, they stated that they are doing so to give communities better options than those provided by payday …
Marble Falls Every once in a while, Google Alerts will pull something up that surprises, when they are acting not like a contemporary search for mentions of ACORN, but more like the Wayback Machine archiving the internet. Recently, they ran something from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and its political column almost fifteen years ago. …
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about running a nonprofit, but in many countries, this has increasingly been like working with a target on your back. This is especially true where democracy is a pretense and autocracy is simply the rule. Tragically, the world’s biggest countries and economies forming the G7 have made this easier …