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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: Ideas and Issues

Elite Schools Taking a Kavanagh Beating While Accelerating Inequality

Ideas and Issues October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 by digital

New Orleans    A subtext of the horror that Judge Brett Kavanagh wears like a cloak has been the elite school tattoos he has branded on every smirk and twist of his mouth and roar of his entitlement and privilege.  Georgetown Prep and Yale both have some explaining to do, but of course they aren’t alone, …

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Has Maryland Gone from Bad to Best in Lead Poisoning Prevention?

Ideas and Issues September 29, 2018September 30, 2018 by digital

New Orleans      Almost everyone knows the terribly destructive impact even the least exposure to lead can have in destroying the future of children, yet we still regularly hear about such tragedies even after all of these decades of recognized danger.  In recent years, Local 100 United Labor Union members who were workers at the …

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The Ugly Face of Entitlement and Hyper-Partisanship

Ideas and Issues September 28, 2018 by digital

Little Rock    I don’t read the crime reports.  I have to stop my family from telling me about horrors inflicted on women and children as they read the paper with shock.  I have trouble watching gratuitous violence on television.  Sometimes I feel like an Octavia Butler character suffering from acute and painful empathy.  I know …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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