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 In some countries, like the United Kingdom, a significant part of ACORN’s work involves going toe to toe with real estate companies and their agencies, that are called “letting” agencies across the pond, as in “to let” or to rent. Like mortgage brokers in the home markets, these folks are often the behind-the-scenes facilitators and …
New Orleans If you had asked me 47 years ago when I was living and working in Arkansas as the founder and chief organizer of ACORN, if I would ever have written a sentence that included the words, “Alan Leveritt is Right,” I would have agreed, because then Alan touted himself as a libertarian of sorts …
New Orleans Black Friday seems like it’s daily for Amazon workers these days, even though in technical, which is to say, marketing, terms it’s right after the American Thanksgiving, hard upon us. Then there’s what they now call Cyber Monday, like Mothers’ Day, another marketing invention by master retailers, all of which seems mainly …