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 Is poverty up, down, or about the same? No one seems to know, but we’ll still pretend they care about the answer. Regardless, the question remains as experts, policymakers, and politicians continue to debate the numbers, while people who in fact ARE the numbers, continue to be desperately and disappointingly poor …
Marble Falls Let’s face it. The wannabe autocrats and corporations have real problems with transparency. It all seems like a case of “methinks they protest too much.” What exactly do they have to hide and why? Take corporations and disclosures about greenhouse gas emissions, for example. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed …
New Orleans The early months of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ tenure as governor of Arkansas have been marked by both confusion and consternation. Sometimes she seems confused and believes she is still former President Trump’s press secretary and trying to sell alternative facts and fantasy as if reality. Other times she seems to think …