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 The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for the last seven years has done an annual report based on a distributional analysis of state taxation policies. It’s terribly depressing reading, not because this nonprofit doesn’t do an excellent job, but because their conclusions take away any hope states are offering a …
Salvador We were lucky that Sunday is traditionally the day off for household domestic workers around the world. We were scheduled to meet the director and leaders of SINDOMESTICO-BA, the Domestic Workers Union in the Brazilian state of Bahia late in the afternoon in Salvador. The address was eluding us, but we were early. …
Brooklyn In one of the performative episodes in the divided Congress, two or three might still remember some of the yahoos thought that they would embarrass somebody by having hearings in New York City about crime. Yawn. Anyway, Ohio’s raging Jim Jordan’s big blurb that made news everywhere is that his big reveal on …