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 It’s a fact of modern American life that most of family wealth lies right under the roof where we live. If you are able to buy a house, then you’ve managed to move up a rung on the ladder towards more security. Many economists and politicians would have us believe that …
July 29, 2021 Little Rock How about some good news for a change? Unbelievably, this is a silver lining attached to the tragic clouds of the pandemic. A comprehensive research project by the Urban Institute found that: The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 …
New Orleans There was a special section in the New York Times recently where their reporters did a follow-up with workers from all around America that they had talked to during the pandemic to see how they were faring now. That was a super depressing read! The bottom line was clear. Unemployed workers were …
Greenville If the current administration remains in office in 2021, don’t be surprised if they float a proposal to move the Labor Department over to the Commerce Department as one of its smaller divisions. These days with every new proposed rule they seem to see their mission as protecting business, not labor; bosses, not workers. …
New Orleans People literally don’t know what to do. Random strangers will ask in social distanced lines at stores and gas stations, whether anyone knows what’s happening to the stimulus. Will there be one? When will it happen? What are we supposed to do? Being president used to be the benchmark that defined leadership …