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/2019/08/CN09012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Ann Carpenter works with the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. Her work in understanding the challenges and predation for lower income families trying to buy homes has been outstanding. Almost exactly two years ago, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign met with her in a …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans When someone from the very conservative, totally pro-business American Enterprise Institute feels it is necessary to remind people that a simple cost-benefit analysis was not necessarily appropriate when evaluating social programs, we have to wonder whether something is terribly amiss or at the least …
New Orleans Something very surprising, and I think very important, is happening about attitudes about welfare. Finally! Unfortunately, it’s happening in the United Kingdom, rather than in the United States, but let’s take the wins where we find them, because there are lessons there that politicians and policy makers need to heed about the limits …