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".
Pearl River One public health research report after another has nailed the facts that minority and lower income populations life expectancy is diminished by environmental pollution. Harvard’s School of Public Health says that the new tighter air pollution standards proposed by the EPA could “reduce mortality rates by up to 7 percent for Black …
New Orleans Love it or leave it, there’s just something about the American South that just can’t keep people away. By the droves if we’re talking about the continued populations shifts from almost everywhere across the country to the South. By the billions if you look at the Biden infrastructure investments. By the …
New Orleans Pay transparency laws are well-intentioned. They are designed to create transparency among co-workers and jobseekers in order to deter discrimination based on gender, race, and other factors. Requiring employers to include pay ranges in job postings and advertisements in theory gives individual workers options for both bargaining higher wages or choosing …