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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

USA Poverty: Why Can’t We End it? Answer: Don’t Want to!

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Financial Justice July 29, 2012July 29, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  I’ve know Peter Edelman since my days as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) at the end of the 1960’s.   He was a policy centered advocate for many of our positions and gave our organizing some credibility when we needed it.  My respect grew for him when he resigned as a …

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How Can We Afford a Lame Duck Treasury Secretary?

Citizen Wealth DC Politics Financial Justice Foreclosure July 24, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Yes, I understand the politics and for reasons that are easy to guess but terrible to live through, President Obama at this late date can’t push his disastrous failure of a Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to the curb despite the fact that he is owned from head to toe by Wall Street, wears …

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Foreclosures for Seniors

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure July 19, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   The AARP has issued an invaluable and depressing study meticulously collected from mortgage loan data in the available years since the housing crisis went full blown in 2007.  The information seems radically different from the spinning popular mythology and the profile of the foreclosure victims among the chattering classes (including British bank regulator …

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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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