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 “Houston, we have a problem.” Let me rephrase that…we have lots of problems. That’s just my opinion though. The president of the United States has a different take… …when Trump answered a question about whether he was motivated by the financial situation of Americans to make a deal to end the …
New Orleans This is a problem in the Age of Trump. Three big outfits that handle huge numbers of donor advised funds and process donations to qualified nonprofits, Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab all announced that they were now refusing to handle donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the well-known civil rights and …
New Orleans In another prime example of absurdity, Trump recently categorically dismissed the importance of child care. This was his George Bush the first moment, when that president was clueless in the grocery store aisle about how the world worked for ordinary Americans. It’s reasonable to assume that Trump is as clueless about …