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 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 Reading the polls, one of the takeaways, and it’s a big one, is that for all of the strengths of the economy, many people aren’t feeling it. Inflation in the basic grocery basket and housing costs are the major reasons. Prices are rising more slowly on food items, but rents are still …
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 …