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".
Marble Falls The big, bad budget bill squeaking through the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives committee process makes a big thing out of work requirements as a means to transfer benefits from the poor to the rich by blocking access to Medicaid, food stamps, and other vestiges of what’s left of the US …
New Orleans The Trump 2.0 administration has choked off aid to other countries, especially poor countries where the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) was a lifesaver in combating disease, mitigating disasters, and assisting in economic development. Legal action has left the agency on a lifeline, but money is still not moving. …
San Francisco Visiting the California Bay Area on my annual spring multi-meeting tour, unsurprisingly, the new Trump administration, its operations, excesses, and follies invariably sucked up no small amount of conversation. Nonetheless, life goes on, even as heads shake with everyone waiting for the next shoe to fall. Reading the tea leaves, there’s …