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 It’s been interesting and kind of exciting to see data centers become an issue in the midterm elections in many states and communities, as well as something of a movement in the way the needle has moved to finally seek some accountability from our tech and billionaire overlords. The feeding frenzy …
New Orleans Louisiana has been able to push 20% of its SNAP or food stamp recipients from the program, according to USDA reports for the year thus far. As most must know by now, the Trump Big Bad Budget Bill continued tax breaks for the rich that was funded by projections of the …
New Orleans Living in the USA, I’m so sick of reading about Trump, Cornell, Iran, and more that stumbling on a story with a happy ending seems like a gift in itself. Surprisingly there was one in the New York Times, of all places. It starts in sadness, of course. A New York …