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".
Marble Falls Here’s something that we see everywhere and all the time, but rarely think much about: the Gross Domestic Product or GDP. If GDP is growing according to the economists, that’s a good thing for a country. Then the question is whether or not it is growing enough to do the job for its people. Wild rates of growth, …
New Orleans We can’t seem to get Congress to read the memo and increase the federal minimum wage, but in almost every other way, workers’ wages seem on the rise, and the signs are everywhere. Kellogg workers after two months on strike still voted down a tentative, five-year contract with the company. Not enough money with their …
New Orleans There’s no better argument for the advantage of in-person meetings rather than Zoom world than our ongoing efforts to figure out a common language over recent months about retrofit campaigns. Visiting with our organizers, first in Lyon, where there had been major breakthroughs, and then in Grenoble, where Adrien Roux, the Alliance …