Baton Rouge Two advance men showed up on Thursday to start vetting locations and activities for President Clinton’s visit to Baton Rouge to help spur participation for eligible families in the earned income tax credit (EITC) program, announce the grant of $250,000 to the ACORN Tax Access Centers and applaud their work in the ten …
Category: Community Organizing
The Principal of Affordable Housing
New York For a long time Manhattan has been the capital of the “executive” city in the world. One reads about prices for one-bedroom condos here and there that match the price of vast rolling estates in other parts of the country. Not surprisingly the price of housing, for sale or for rent, has therefore …
Stopping Big-Boxes in Orlando
Tampa WARN, the Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now, spent some time over the last year building a powerful coalition in Orlando — churches, unions, environmentalists, ACORN, civil rights groups, and others — and then did the work to figure out how Wal-Mart would expand over the next 10 years in their saturation strategy to fill the market. …