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".
Pearl River Credit to where credit is due, Sheryl Steinberg controversial and increasingly maligned Facebook executive and billionaire enabler of Mark Zuckerberg, enfant terrible, definitely gets credit for coining the phrase “lean in.” In her conception, a significant problem with the underpayment of women in the workplace was that they were not leaning in, which …
Pearl River I hate being one of those “I told you so” people, but anyone listening knows we predicted the “deal” on the social services infrastructure package would come in around $2 trillion, if there’ a deal at all. I hate these arguments about whether programs should be “entitlements,” meaning everyone benefits, or targeted and means-tested to …
New Orleans What’s the old saying? An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Something like that, I think. All of which made reading some parts of a piece on Lauren Windsor’s almost one-woman campaign to pop James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas and zing conservative Republicans a guilty pleasure. It seems that Windsor …