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 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 …
Pearl River Once again, after having been given up for dead, just like he was in the Presidential primaries before South Carolina, the early reports of Joe Biden’s demise are premature. Not counting a couple of Covid-cases, he’s had a resurrection summer, remarkable for having pulled victories out of the jaws of defeat. Huge …
Marble Falls West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin flipped the script without a worry in the world about whether his on-again, off-again position on the Biden administration’s signature climate, tax, and healthcare might have bothered or embarrassed him in the least. Promoting the fig leaf name change of the proposed Senate legislation, he …