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 There’s nothing easy about running a nonprofit, but in many countries, this has increasingly been like working with a target on your back. This is especially true where democracy is a pretense and autocracy is simply the rule. Tragically, the world’s biggest countries and economies forming the G7 have made this easier …
Detroit In the United States, one thing that has always seemed sacrosanct has been local public schools. That is not to say that elected school boards have not been political, but is to say there has rarely been any fundamental question about whether or not public schools were governed and run locally. Parochial schools …
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 …