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".
Pearl River We keep beating this drum, over and over. Nonprofit, tax-exempt hospitals are supposed to provide charity care to justify the fact that they do not have to pay federal taxes. This benefit is worth billions for some hospital chains and is always a boon to any nonprofit hospital. The Affordable Care Act …
Marble Falls We’ve looked at the diversity and governance of rural electric cooperatives closely over the last five or six years. By we, I mean ACORN International, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and Local 100 United Labor Unions that came together as the Rural Power Project. It hasn’t been a pretty picture. …
May 4, 2022 New Orleans I receive the state association newsletters from cooperatives in both Mississippi and Arkansas, along with the rural electric cooperative newsletters and surveys from several local co-ops. Reading through them allows me to keep up. I read with special interest Arkansas Living’s March issue focusing on women. The …