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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

Overtime Rule is One Thing, Enforcement is Another

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues May 18, 2016May 19, 2016 by digital

San Jose   It’s official now. Starting December 1st, a bit more than six months from now, salaried employees making less than about $47,000 per year or $913 a week will be eligible for overtime pay at time-and-one-half of their effective hourly rate. The last adjustment in 2004 was a bit over $23,000 or $455 per …

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Is Squatting Back? No, It Never Stopped!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure May 16, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   There was a breathless article in the New York Times with a Las Vegas dateline purporting to have found something new under the sun, at least the desert sun, and the discovery was squatters. The sources attesting to the fact that the sky was falling and the horror of it all were, unsurprisingly, …

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Is Their Hope for Obamacare?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care May 14, 2016May 15, 2016 by digital

New Orleans     A federal court somewhere gave new hope to the haters that the subsidies the Affordable Care Act to lower income families might be blocked.  The Administration says they will win on appeal.  But, this is only one cloud of many in the building thunderstorm.             Insurance companies and those that follow them …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

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