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".
Marble Falls Here’s something that we see everywhere and all the time, but rarely think much about: the Gross Domestic Product or GDP. If GDP is growing according to the economists, that’s a good thing for a country. Then the question is whether or not it is growing enough to do the job for its people. Wild rates of growth, …
Marble Falls As the calendar turns to mark the end of the second year of the pandemic, we went old school, and headed for the hills. To be more exact, we went back to Arkansas, and, more specifically, the Ozarks. Mountains, perhaps I should say more accurately, but having been born in Wyoming and raised in Colorado and …
Little Rock Sometimes you stumble over something so obvious, you shake your head wondering why your thinking was so patterned that it was in danger of becoming more habitual than flexible in facing organizing problems. An organizer always has to challenge herself not to simply fall back on a practiced repertoire of tactics and strategies in facing …