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".
Marble Falls Living in a rural area comes with an automatic health issue. There are fewer hospitals than in cities. When a rural family has a health crisis, they better have a working car, because there is going to be some amount of distance to a hospital for emergency or any other kind …
Marble Falls Maybe it’s nostalgia or a memory defect, but it seems like there was a time, maybe in the 70s before Nixon, where fledgling organizations, grassroots, low-income, issue-responsive, or what some call frontline groups now, could relatively easily access legal advice and help. Legal services were actually federally funded. There were large and …
Marble Falls We’ve done study after study of nonprofit hospitals, particularly on the question of their charitable status. Benefiting from a tax-exemption, they are required to be charitable. A condition of the amendments upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago insisted that if they were not significantly and …