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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The rental market in the USA is the wild west. Not the west where the “deer and the buffalo roam” and “the skies are never cloudy.” That’s long gone. The rental mark in America is now the wild west of HBO’s “Deadwood” and the …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Remember back in the old days, which might have only been a few years ago, but certainly seems so twentieth century now, when it seemed OK that Google was the go-to search engine for most everyone, the mail service for billions, map reader for …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans While much of the country is stuck at the level of the federal minimum wage, there are enough states and cities that have nudged the numbers up that economists and others are starting to be able to tell with certainty whether the competing claims …