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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".

Category: Financial Justice

The IRS Enables the Return of Refund Anticipation Loans

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues March 13, 2017March 24, 2022 by digital

New Orleans   Refund anticipation loans or RALs, as they were known, were one of the most predatory products on the market in their heyday targeted solely to low-and-moderate income workers who were most desperate for their tax returns. They were on the other side of the digital divide so less likely to file with the …

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A Day Without Women Here is a Day About Women Everywhere

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Organizing March 9, 2017 by digital

Little Rock   The limits of action without organization are hard to escape, and in the United States the call for a strike and actions by women to show America how badly the country would suffer without the contribution of women and their economic power was bound to suffer from the “revolution of rising expectations” set …

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Healthcare Plan is a Killer

Citizen Wealth DC Politics Financial Justice Health Care March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 by digital

Little Rock   How many of us have heard from our mothers that “if we can’t say something good, then don’t say anything at all.” I wish that were the case with the Ryan and some Republicans’ healthcare bill. So far, I’m failing to find any silver lining, other than it’s not a total repeal …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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