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 I learned a new term to describe my old public high school in talking to Tufts University Professor Natasha Warikoo. It’s not a neighborhood school or a magnet school or even a college-preparatory school, but an “exam” school, meaning of course that it takes passing a test to get through the doors. …
Marble Falls What is it about sex and the “he say, she say” when it breaks bad that makes justice so hard to achieve and fraught with misunderstanding and contention? That’s part of the question that civil rights lawyer Alexandra Brodsky tries to answer not only in her career, but also in her …
New Orleans The child care credit in the Biden stimulus package has been heralded, including by me, as the first significant step in reversing the draconian “end of welfare as we know it” program of former President Clinton. Experts noted that this child-centered program, providing front end payments on the credit of $300 per month for families …