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".
Manchester In the modern world and economy, it’s hard to escape Amazon. Of course, on many levels, we all know this as part of our daily life. Their gray vans have become ubiquitous if you live in a city, and their eighteen wheelers are as common as Walmart’s when you are moving on …
New Orleans The Community Reinvestment Act or CRA is pushing towards its 50th anniversary. ACORN was one of the many groups pushing for its passage, and the first to challenge its effectiveness before the Federal Reserve. The CRA was designed to stop redlining and increase lending in minority and lower income areas where …
New Orleans This isn’t a race among the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, it’s a some kind of a bad survival television reality show. The big difference is that the subtitle on this show would be: Survival of the Unfittest. We’re watching such a downhill slide that we seem to …