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 When President Bill Clinton, working with Speaker Gingrich, passed their deform welfare bill thirty years ago, converting the program from an entitlement for the lowest income Americans, women with dependent children, to block grants from the federal government to the states, ending in Clinton’s words “welfare as we know it,” it was …
New Orleans The embarrassing Health & Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined with the TV Doctor Oz who is now heading CMS, which runs Medicaid and Medicare, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the head of HUD, the department of housing and urban development, in a joint op-ed jeremiad demanding that as the …
Amsterdam Yes, the harm from Trump’s petulant barrage of tariffs is very bad. Yes, snatching people with valid visas off the streets seems other worldly, and absolutely not the America we knew and loved. Yes, mass deportations without rhyme or reason to heinous prisons in El Salvador are outrageous, including the play-pretend of administration …