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 The State Department and Biden Administration have announced the creation of a new program to increase refugee resettlement in the United States called the Welcome Corps. You know like the Peace Corps, Army Corps, and the like. The program isn’t perfect, but in these difficult and divided times, it seems to me …
New Orleans In one of the opening salvos in the last stretch of his campaign, Louisiana’s Senator John Neely Kennedy, not to be confused with any other Kennedy people that might come to mind, reacted strongly to President Biden’s marijuana pardons. He seems to be equating them with crackheads and inferring that we …
New Orleans Some great news for a change: the United States hit a record low rate of poverty with a decrease from 9.2% at that level to 7.8%, according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure that pretty much counts everything from all governmental aid to wages and so forth. Additionally, child poverty was only …