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 Over the last year, New Orleans hasn’t offered recycling since Hurricane Ida knocked the city out of commission. After recycling for the last three decades, it feels bad to be putting old newspapers in with the garbage. Throwing plastic in seems almost disloyal to ACORN members in India for whom that …
New Orleans The US Department of Labor has now moved to give so-called gig workers some of the fundamental rights that other workers enjoy by proposing a clarifying standard of tests to determine their status. The tests would include the level of control they have over their jobs, and whether they have the …
New Orleans If I’m feeling uneasy, and I’m not the only one, about what politicians and public officials are thinking these days, that’s almost pales compared to what some folks are saying. Social media is generally a hotbed on the cra-cra side of discourse, but most of that is pretty easy to ignore …