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".
Little Rock Exhausted after a long day, I fell asleep on children’s time, which wasn’t terrible, since my watch gave me my highest sleep score ever at 70. I can remember one weird dream before waking. I got a call, bizarrely, from the EPI, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, telling me to click on …
Pearl River A brief note emailed to two-million federal workers suggested that they must decide within a few days whether to take a buyout offer that would pay them through September and resign, or, essentially, take their chances about whether in the new regime their job and their ability to remain employed would survive. …
New Orleans After twenty years, the two-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) issued a press release quoting its new president, April Verret, saying that after twenty years, the union is rejoining the AFL-CIO. This is news, but it also one of those things where one would nod and say, “it was just …