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".
Marble Falls I stumbled on a surprising item in the Washington Post. A handful of states have carved out exceptions for workers voluntarily leaving their jobs because they are refusing employer compliance with the vaccine mandate. These deep red states want these anti-vax protestors to get unemployment. I could hardly believe my eyes, but seeing is believing as they wrote that … …
New Orleans A news item in the Washington Post caught my eye in this holiday season when buying seems mainly what it is all about sometimes. They were reporting on an interesting organizational phenomenon: Buy Nothing groups. The thumbnail sketch they provided was intriguing: What started in 2013 as a hyperlocal network of “circular gift economies” in Bainbridge Island, Wash., has …
New Orleans Crawling deeper and deeper down the dark hole of cash and corporate home-buying practices recently, one of the big players, previously unknown to me, was Opendoor. When I looked, it seemed like less a source where a prospective buyer would be fronted the cash to make an offer on a house to increase their chances …