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 The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for the last seven years has done an annual report based on a distributional analysis of state taxation policies. It’s terribly depressing reading, not because this nonprofit doesn’t do an excellent job, but because their conclusions take away any hope states are offering a …
Nairobi Scanning a copy of The Financial Times that I picked up as I hustled through the Frankfurt Airport, I stumbled onto another drumbeat in the chorus of reversals hitting the concept of social investing or ESG, environmental, social and governance screens for big money funds and progressive punters trying to make change for …
Marble Falls Why should we care about the headline grabbing drama in Silicon Valley and tech neighborhoods around the world about OpenAI and the fate of its globetrotting CEO Sam Altman? Good question, especially since every report is fabricated from hints, winks, and gestures, lacking any hard facts about exactly what triggered the …