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 We’ve done study after study of nonprofit hospitals, particularly on the question of their charitable status. Benefiting from a tax-exemption, they are required to be charitable. A condition of the amendments upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago insisted that if they were not significantly and …
New Orleans The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for the last seven years has done an annual report based on a distributional analysis of state taxation policies. It’s terribly depressing reading, not because this nonprofit doesn’t do an excellent job, but because their conclusions take away any hope states are offering a …
New Orleans I may be a techno-peasant, but I at least like to keep up. That’s not to say, that I’ve tried any of the artificial intelligence or AI things that are out there, but I’m what you might call AI-adjacent, in the weird, but common parlance popular these days. My daughter showed …