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".
New Orleans Dealing with the pandemic in the most basic ways has been a struggle for the last more than eighteen months for people all around the world. The health impacts have been devasting. In the United States, over 650,000 have died from the virus, eclipsing any other pandemic in our history now. …
Little Rock Here’s an interesting issue that will increasingly become part of the public and private conflict around the polarizing issues of the pandemic: who pays for Covid-19 tests? Underneath the issue of mandates around masks and vaccination, testing is still vital. Often it is the twin in the either-or when workers and others …
New Orleans, It was inevitable. We could see this coming as clear as the day’s dawn. It was just a matter of time. Representing nursing home workers, we knew, given the last year’s history with the pandemic and the death count in care facilities, that a vaccine mandate was necessary and would be unavoidable. Now …