January 30, 2022 Pearl River Every year, rain or shine, sleet or snow, our ACORN family of organizations for the last almost fifty years has assembled at the beginning of a new year. For almost the last forty years we have met in the New Orleans area for what we call a Year End …
Guinea Pigs No More on Medical Trials
New Orleans The political division over vaccinations continues to rage. There were demonstrations in Europe. There’s a headline about some kind of truckers’ convoy moving in Canada to protest in Ottawa. In the United States, it’s everywhere it seems, with a hardcore of 15% or so that say never ever. Meanwhile, US hospitals are …
Apps for the Poor
New Orleans Decades ago, ACORN embarked on a pilot to increase the enrollment for families in San Antonio, New Orleans, and Miami in the Earned Tax Credit and Child Care Credit programs. We ran it as an organizing program in areas where we knew, based on demographic data and our own organizing experience, …