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".
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 …
Montreal The global affordable housing crisis largely continues unchecked, with more people looking and fewer finding, as prices rise and access decreases. Developers rush to build high-end luxury properties and demand extensive incentives and subsidies for affordable complexes. dampening supply. With real estate interests often virtually owning politicians, tenants struggle to get protections. Organizing …