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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: Health Care

Street Mail ACA Notices from HHS to All Americans

Health Care September 13, 2013 by digital

Baton Rouge   Rosa Hines, Louisiana State Director of Local 100 United Labor Unions, had set up an interesting meeting for all of us at the main mailing plant of the US Postal Service in Baton Rouge to see if there was a way to get a mass mail drop to low-and-moderate income families of literature …

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ACA May Offer a Bargaining Opportunity for Lower Wage Workers

Health Care Ideas and Issues September 11, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  I’m just thinking out loud, so I might be stumbling over myself, but in continuing my study of the likely inner workings of the Affordable Care Act, there almost seems to be some bargaining opportunities with employers of lower wage workers to leverage full subsidies of individual health insurance for workers who otherwise …

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Confronting the Obamacare Bullies!

Health Care September 6, 2013September 6, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   The important thing about working for change is to “keep hope alive” and always believe that if you work every day the “arc of justice is long” and as “inevitable as the rising of the sun” to quote Jackson, King, and Debs all in one sentence.   Don’t do that at home!             I …

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Interviews with Wade Rathke

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

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Italian Interview with Wade

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