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".
Little Rock Acting as station manager of KABF in Little Rock, Arkansas, means that I now roll up there ten times a year over the last eight or ten years. Getting around the state, especially up in the mountains, I see the names of a lot of little banks that aren’t the big ones that …
New Orleans Decades ago, ACORN embarked on a pilot to increase the enrollment for families in San Antonio, New Orleans, and Miami in the Earned Tax Credit and Child Care Credit programs. We ran it as an organizing program in areas where we knew, based on demographic data and our own organizing experience, …
Pearl River For years our nonprofits have had a policy that automatically affixes the annual increase in the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) to our salary scale. In some years, in all honesty, the policy is more aspirational that achievable. There’s a simple explanation: not enough money coming in the front door to roll over to the …