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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

Stress and Bad Health in Poor Communities

ACORN International Health Care March 28, 2011 by wade

Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting.  Plane loads of lawyers …

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Head Scratching over Water Issues in San Pedro and Neza

ACORN International Health Care February 21, 2011 by wade

San Miguel de Allende In San Pedro de Martir close to the edge of the Districto Federal with signs indicating we were within 50 kilometers of Cuernavaca, one of the big issues was a polluted creek contaminating the area and the water supply.  Nearby companies claiming to have permits for the dumping had created a …

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Impacting Healthcare: Organizing Medical “Hotspots”

Health Care Labor Organizing Organizing January 27, 2011January 27, 2011 by wade

Toronto Dr. Atul Gawande writing in the current issue of The New Yorker (1/24/11) interjects himself once again into the national (global?) health care debate by pointing out that hard data often reveals, as it did in Camden, New Jersey, that as much as 30% of health care costs are generated by as few as …

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