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 I don’t use TikTok, but I know it’s hot. I’ve watched one video that one of our nephew’s children put together. It was cute. Supposedly, it was a riff on something else, but I didn’t get the cultural connection, so I was clueless. Here’s what I know from boomerville. For all …
New Orleans Many forget that low-income families are not just ALICE people, meaning Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed folks, but they are also an important and critical market for many companies. Even while some conservative forces in the states try to cut back on crucial social services like Medicare and eligibility for food …
Marble Falls We have a meeting next week in central Ohio to talk about voter suppression. We’re doing a training the next day in Cleveland, but we’ll be gathering before that in a small town 30-odd miles out of Columbus. Where will we meet? It’ll be the Waffle House, and why not? Waffle …