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 I’ve noticed it, and surely you have, too, but social media just isn’t that social anymore. Maybe it’s me, but I don’t think so. Something like Twitter was never a conversation with a community, but more a one-way megaphone, sometimes turned to high volume. Facebook has become more akin to a bulletin …
New Orleans – Celebrity hawkers for cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens or NFTs, as they are called, are in a bit of hot water. Singer Madonna, influencer Kim Kardashian, and NFL quarterback Tom Brady were among those named in civil suits by investors who took a bath on digital assets and are arguing that theses celebrity hustlers …
New Orleans Economist Raj Chetty, his crew and colleagues, have been making big news in that subset of folks who care about social mobility and social capital, which are kind of fancy names for moving up the income ladder and how you successfully navigate in the real world or are stuck along the …