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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/CN10202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The horrors visited on low-and-moderate income families are numerous and their damage inestimable and often devastating now and onward to future generations. Even knowing this, it is still shocking to find additional examples hidden right before our eyes. A case in point is estate recovery. …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Renee-Wahl-and-The-Sworn-Secrets-01-To-The-Bone-200019474.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsMilwaukee No matter what P.T. Barnum once said, sometimes bad press is really bad press, even when they spell your name right, and that’s what seems to be happening in Arkansas now, thanks to the boneheaded right wing in the legislature and in Republican bureaucracy that is …
New Orleans Study after study details the fact that with 45 million Americans employed in low-paying service sector jobs paying usually minimal wages for often part-time hours in a period of almost record low unemployment hovering around 4%, work in this age of excruciating inequality is simply not enough to get a family out of …