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 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 US Department of Labor has now moved to give so-called gig workers some of the fundamental rights that other workers enjoy by proposing a clarifying standard of tests to determine their status. The tests would include the level of control they have over their jobs, and whether they have the …
New Orleans In one of the opening salvos in the last stretch of his campaign, Louisiana’s Senator John Neely Kennedy, not to be confused with any other Kennedy people that might come to mind, reacted strongly to President Biden’s marijuana pardons. He seems to be equating them with crackheads and inferring that we …