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 Sometimes we overlook the obvious when focusing on some of the fights on the sidelines. This thought hit me like a brick while I was reading about the efforts to win a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota, the latest battleground for wage justice for so-called gig workers. These …
New Orleans I get emails from a coalition called One Fair Wage, largely because our now shuttered Fair Grinds Coffeehouses were members of ROC, the Restaurant Opportunity Centers, which drives that alliance. In a recent bulletin they were heralding a front-page article in the New York Times and taking credit for feeding the …
New Orleans The term “starving artist” is a dependable piece of the vernacular; a linguistic matched set. Unfortunately, cultural cachet doesn’t pay the rent. For all of the emphasis on “arts and letters” and the millions of gallons of ink major media from the New York Times to the local TV and news …