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".
Little Rock Once again, all the claims that colleges and universities want to recruit more lower income students and narrow the widening equity gap is exposed for what it mainly is: talk. Higher education institutions claim this is a priority, but the abysmal results year after year speak to how false the promises from …
New Orleans Now that the candidates for the US presidential election are no longer presumed, but set firmly in concrete, the fight will be ratcheting up to win voter support. Interestingly, in such a divided country with such well-known and established candidates, the undecided voters are likely few, making the nonvoters critical to the …
New Orleans Someone could almost rewrite the song line, “War? What is it good for?” and substitute WTO for war and still get a lot of us clapping and singing along. Not because the World Trade Organization or WTO for short is not a blood and guts outfit with bombs bursting, but many …