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 ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center for years piled through tax data from nonprofit hospitals in our joint Hospital Accountability Project. We issued a number of reports about the paucity of charity care these hospitals were providing, despite requirements in the Affordable Care Act that they do so …
Marble Falls When we talk about a “learning curve,” we sometimes forget how easy it is to careen over the edge and crash into the ravine below. Even beaten and bruised, surviving is its own token of success. In this case, I’m talking about the process of putting a radio station on the …
New Orleans With each news story reaffirming earlier regional reports by ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and Labor Neighbor, I don’t know how to get around the conclusion that many tax-exempt, supposedly nonprofit hospitals are a sham, little more than wolves in sheep’s clothing, and no better than the low bar set …