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".
Pearl River One public health research report after another has nailed the facts that minority and lower income populations life expectancy is diminished by environmental pollution. Harvard’s School of Public Health says that the new tighter air pollution standards proposed by the EPA could “reduce mortality rates by up to 7 percent for Black …
Marble Falls An article in US papers the other day must have struck at the heart of true feminists everywhere. The subject purported to be the annual lament for women, as we move into the heart of summer, over how to pick out a swimsuit for this season. They showed a picture of …
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 …