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".
Cartagena Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer, submarine captain, Governor of Georgia, President of the United States, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, passed away at 100 years of age as the longest lived president in the history of the country. There will be a lot of comment on his time under the sun. Some of it …
New Orleans For all the talk from conservatives about strangling the government in a bathtub and similar hyperboles, as well as the Elon Musk project to starve a lot of it to near death life-support level, the reality is that a competent and efficient government is critical in all countries, perhaps especially the United …
Pearl River Jason DeParle, who covers the poverty beat for the New York Times, says the Harris-Trump contest “presents the sharpest clash in antipoverty policy in at least a generation, and its outcome could shape the economic security of millions of low-income Americans.” In noting the differences, he reports that Harris “…would seek to sustain …