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 I had mixed feelings when I opened The New Yorker when I saw there was a long piece by Patrick Radden Keefe with the eyebrow “Letter from New Orleans.” On one hand, it was crack, there was no way that I wasn’t excited to read whatever it might have been about. …
New Orleans The new rules for Medicaid recipients mandated in Trump’s Big Bad Budget Bill go into full effect on January 1, 2027, including the 80-hour work or volunteer requirement. Many states are already in the process of changing the rules and enrollment procedures, because in addition to the rule changes the federal …
New Orleans Mardi Gras is a huge tourism event for New Orleans, just as it is for Rio de Janeiro, and increasingly the entire Gulf Coast all the way to Mobile, Alabama. I’m not going to begrudge this broke-ass section of the United States a chance to breakeven or make a dollar or …