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 These are the tough choices. Hobson’s choices. Devil or the deep blue sea choices. Sacrificing one to save the many, or risking that all die. To read the daily papers is to find the Democrats in their thin majorities now having to bargain with themselves, libs to mods to worse, on …
New Orleans ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center have been studying hospitals for some years now. First, we looked at charity care in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and found that if nonprofits with tax exemptions simply hit the average of 4% of gross income as …
New Orleans Pundits and politicos are already talking about the 2022 US midterm elections with anxiety and bated breath, but the election news is meh and madness in other countries right now. The annual ACORN Canada staff meeting and training north of Toronto was held in person recently. The team was following the …
New Orleans The headline includes the words, “…Orange County as Harbinger of 2022 Midterms” in the New York Times. I’m not sure whether my father would be laughing his butt off or screaming at the winds of change, but I know one thing: he would have been scratching his head in total surprise. How …
New Orleans As the fog clears, I’m going to beat this drum once again about the outrageous scam called Opportunity Zones that were part and parcel of the Trump tax giveaway and in this case were done in the name and off the backs of the poor. My blood was back on boiling …