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".
Queens, New York Bellarose is a small community of hardly 2000 folks at the border of New York City’s Queens Borough and Long Island’s Hempstead County. During World War II it was also next door to Mitchel Field, an Army Air Force training center during the war, named after a former mayor New York …
Pearl River Tennessee is looking for attention. This isn’t Virginia, they want to make sure that we understand that love has nothing to do with it. Tennessee is the Volunteer State. They aren’t talking about church suppers, little league games, neighborhood cleanups, and Red Cross blood drives. They are proud of their ability to take …
Marble Falls Talking to NYU Professor Natasha Iskander on Wade’s World and reading her new book, Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond, forces us to confront the fact that we don’t think enough about skills. Employers, educators and politicians constantly promote more effort and programs to increase skills. We all talk about …