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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".

Category: Citizen Wealth

Is Squatting Back? No, It Never Stopped!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure May 16, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   There was a breathless article in the New York Times with a Las Vegas dateline purporting to have found something new under the sun, at least the desert sun, and the discovery was squatters. The sources attesting to the fact that the sky was falling and the horror of it all were, unsurprisingly, …

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Is Their Hope for Obamacare?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care May 14, 2016May 15, 2016 by digital

New Orleans     A federal court somewhere gave new hope to the haters that the subsidies the Affordable Care Act to lower income families might be blocked.  The Administration says they will win on appeal.  But, this is only one cloud of many in the building thunderstorm.             Insurance companies and those that follow them …

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Google Steps Up and Bans Ads from Payday Lenders

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 13, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   Just because we’re chasing them, doesn’t mean that payday lenders are on the run, but recently we got a break that could end up as a fatal blow and perhaps stiffen the backbone and open the eyes of those unwilling to confront the predatory practices that define the business model of payday lenders. …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

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