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 There was a news item that was a bit of good news for school children and teachers in Oklahoma. The elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is resigning his office to take a job running a nonprofit whose aim is to fight teachers’ unions around the country. Many have followed …
Marble Falls As Trump continues to push globalization into the dustbin of history, it’s worth looking at the intended and unintended impacts of remittances around the world. Some may remember that one of Trump’s proposals in trying to attack immigration and migrant workers is to propose a transaction tax on remittances flowing from …
Marble Falls I wasn’t familiar with the negotiating strategy being popularized by a guy named Chris Voss called “tactical empathy,” until reading an interview in Sunday Times from over a month ago. Turns out that Voss was a career FBI guy who went from being on SWAT teams to becoming their lead negotiator …