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 Driving from Houston to New Orleans only days ago, we ran into gas stations that were selling for $3.59 per gallon at the pump. In and around New Orleans, we saw prices between $4.19 and $3.69. That’s a pretty big spread. For a lower income family that could add up to …
Pearl River Several years ago, my dear daughter touted the immense value of podcasts to me saying, “they’ll change your life.” For whatever reason, they haven’t, and mainly that’s probably more a technical issue than a content complaint. More recently, somewhat less expansively, she recommended audiobooks which I have come to sample more appreciatively, …
Pearl River We’re all wrong sometimes. I swore Hillary would beat Trump, and, in fact, hoped he would be her opponent, thinking he was the one candidate she could surely beat. I thought the Amazon Labor Union would lose in their shot at the Staten Island warehouse, after failing to make the showing of …