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".
Coyocan An In These Times article by Ottavia Spaggiari sucked me in with a pull quote that blared, “As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history – set to strip $500 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next nine years, leaving a projected 16 million …
Mexico City If you think that the 2007-08 housing meltdown taught the government unforgettable lessons, you’re dreaming. For all the problems of Obama exacerbating the crisis by letting banks determine mortgage payers modifications, a classic fox in charge of the chicken house situation, a huge part of the problem was the real estate …
New Orleans The embarrassing Health & Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined with the TV Doctor Oz who is now heading CMS, which runs Medicaid and Medicare, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the head of HUD, the department of housing and urban development, in a joint op-ed jeremiad demanding that as the …