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’ve been trying to follow the ping-pong ball back and forth on arguments about the Biden administration’s one-time student loan relief program of between $10 and $20,000 for eligible borrowers making less than $125,000 a year and Pell Grant recipients. Some are arguing this is a middle-class welfare program, increasing inequity. …
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 …