London Meetings with the director of the newly formed Tenants’ Foundation, the director of Generation Rent, and ACORN United Kingdom’s organizing coordinator and head organizer in London yesterday was a deep dive into tenant rights — and wrongs — in England. The big picture is dire for tenants throughout the country, and most intensely in …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Setting the “Real” Living Wage in the United Kingdom
London The conservatives in the United States may have managed some permanent confusion among workers by labeling their decades long campaign against unions and dues collection, the “right-to-work” laws, but on our side of the line the several decades we have fought “living wage” campaigns was an equally powerful organizing bulwark against ongoing efforts to …
Internet for All
New Orleans If we want to make a difference in income inequality, there are some easy and accessible first steps that we can take and one of them is to lower the digital divide. ACORN Canada released a report based on a survey of 400 of our nearly 80,000 members across the country, and it …