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 It’s a sad statement about the values and foundations of American society that when people don’t get what they want, they still feel it’s safe to punish the poor, and people who claim to care about lower income families allow them to do it, because they are not only poor, but …
New Orleans Facebook or Meta, whatever you want to call it, and Amazon are slippery employers. For all of their hundreds of thousands of direct employees, they almost have as many contract workers on the cheap, either doing jobs that expose the companies to liabilities or where they can simply scrimp on pay. …
New Orleans Having a big insurance company, like State Farm, pack up and leave the state is old news in Louisiana. Big companies, little companies, medium-sized companies come and go all the time here. Nonetheless, when State Farm, the largest insurer in California, the most populous of the states in the US and …