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".
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about running a nonprofit, but in many countries, this has increasingly been like working with a target on your back. This is especially true where democracy is a pretense and autocracy is simply the rule. Tragically, the world’s biggest countries and economies forming the G7 have made this easier …
Marble Falls Living in a rural area comes with an automatic health issue. There are fewer hospitals than in cities. When a rural family has a health crisis, they better have a working car, because there is going to be some amount of distance to a hospital for emergency or any other kind …
Marble Falls From what I read; it’s getting rougher out there. Bullying has always been a problem in the schoolyard since time immemorial. With social media, all stops are off with teens, women, and anyone even slightly different than the herd. Those of us now long grown can be thankful that we escaped the …