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".
Pearl River As the pandemic continues, the service and sacrifices of health care workers continues to be front-page news, although with a different twist. Rather than reading about pot banging and applause, we’re reading about their vaccination rates. Where mandates apply in places like New York, we know 95% have had a least one shot, and 85% of …
New Orleans Doing this report with one finger and that pretty much sucks, but your correspondent continues to do fieldwork from the healthcare front, but I’ll keep it short if I can. As we’ve discussed in the past, our organizations have been doing research on hospitals for the past number of years. After bring phenomenally lucky, I …
New Orleans Dealing with the pandemic in the most basic ways has been a struggle for the last more than eighteen months for people all around the world. The health impacts have been devasting. In the United States, over 650,000 have died from the virus, eclipsing any other pandemic in our history now. …