A Joint Study with Ottawa ACORN Asks Important Questions about Voting and Polling Places

ACORN Canada Ideas and Issues

New Orleans    Community Life Services, a community service wing of the University of Ottawa, worked with ACORN Canada in Ottawa on a fascinating project that is now starting to take shape and produce some interesting conclusions – and questions – about the ways that the placement of voting stations may curiously and adversely impact the …

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Why Deny the Poor Access to Telephone Service and the Internet?

ACORN ACORN International Canada Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

Ocean Springs    We can say with confidence and without fear of correction that the coming year will see yet more full scale battles in the war against the poor. Anyone can make that list.  Certainly it starts with the headliners right now as extended unemployment benefits are being terminated, food stamps are still on the chopping …

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