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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

Big Boys Cashing in On Rents and Mortgages

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 31, 2019June 2, 2019 by digital

Louisville   When it’s good for the hedge funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs), it’s almost never good for the rest of us, especially the beleaguered renters of America or anyone trying to move the next step to buy a home or get a mortgage. Blackstone, the mega-private equity fund, cashed in once again on …

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Colleges Are Key for Wages and We’re Failing Students

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 by digital

New Orleans    Living in the southern and western states in the United States, sometimes it seems we just can’t catch a break.  Back to back analyses of critical income factors in the papers spell trouble on multiple fronts.  Walk with me on this a while. More people are leaving a majority of the largest metropolitan …

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Fighting the NIMBYs on Affordable Housing

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 24, 2019 by digital

New Orleans     Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site.  It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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