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 Is poverty up, down, or about the same? No one seems to know, but we’ll still pretend they care about the answer. Regardless, the question remains as experts, policymakers, and politicians continue to debate the numbers, while people who in fact ARE the numbers, continue to be desperately and disappointingly poor …
New Orleans Once again, it’s hard not to quote the Beach Boys line about how “we wish we could all be in California” or something close to that. When it comes to the progress being made for working people by labor unions, the recent news has been amazing. As PBS and the Associated …
Marble Falls A little more than a year out from the US election, it’s getting really scary out there. The sides are forming, and there’s little middle ground, with the space in between often being filled with little more than the impunity of power answering only, “because I could.” Sure, the top of …