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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

Wages Up but How High is Fair?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 20, 2015 by digital

New Orleans       Walmart has announced that over a half-million of its workers will get a raise to $9 now and up to $10 sometime in 2016 at the cost of one-billion dollars.  This is good news, so I won’t remind people of the Pinocchio stories the company has told for years about its so-called average …

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“Swear Jars” Are Great Public Policy

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 19, 2015February 19, 2015 by digital

New Orleans      Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts is getting a bit of ribbing from the Fox News types out there for her proposal to create the equivalent of a “swear jar” for big drug companies when they are paying fines for illegal activity and other violations.  What a great idea! Over the past decade, big …

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Oil Sacrifice Zone for Many is Home to Some

Citizen Wealth Health Care Ideas and Issues February 15, 2015 by digital

New Orleans       Born in Laramie and raised in and around the West as a boy, it’s still a place of my heart and a taproot to my life, so I try to keep up as I travel along my winding roads and partly I do that by reading the High Country News.  Flipping through an issue on …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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

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