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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

Globe and Mail Off Base on Living Wages

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice December 30, 2009 by wade

Playa de Manzilla Certainly ACORN Canada didn’t expect a resounding endorsement from the conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, from its editorial about the ACORN living wage campaigns that are front and center in the major city and national capital of Ottawa and in New Westminster, the important working suburb of Vancouver, and it’s …

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Santa Barbara Finally Pulls Up Short

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice December 26, 2009 by wade

Quepos            It was an extra present under the palm tree to read in the pre-dawn that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was being pulled out of the business of factoring RALs, predatory refund anticipation loan for Jackson & Hewitt and other companies in the viciously competitive tax services market for lower  income and working families.  …

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Pampered, Rich, Lazy Bankers Dis Prez

Financial Justice Ideas and Issues December 15, 2009 by wade

New Orleans The meeting between a dozen big bankers and President Obama was just for show anyway, but three of the big dawgs were too trifling to make it from New York to DC for cryeye because of fog.  The three scofflaws were Goldman Sachs, the poster child for banking excess, Citigroup, the face of …

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