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 Facebook and its Instagram child, Twitter and its tweets, and the rest of the gang are going from addictive communication tools that we all use to some degree as things we love and hate to dangerous weapons in many hands and misinformation machines that are out of control. Facebook, particularly, seems …
New Orleans Inflation is scary to people, especially if you are now living in Argentina or Venezuela, where prices are rising in double digits on a regular basis. In the United States, it’s a mixed bag, depending on where you stand, and who you believe. There’s no question that prices are currently going up, partly because of …
New Orleans For years, I have harped on the need to make “maximum feasible participation” an emphasis on delivery of all governmental benefit programs. The pandemic has heightened visibility of the gap between eligibility in target populations and distribution of approved and legislated benefits to the populations. In the United States, we see …