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 When I wrote Citizen Wealth, published in 2009, I proudly recorded the role that ACORN played in increasing the homeownership rate of Black and Hispanic Americans over a period of thirty-years between 1977-78 and 2007-2008. We had fought, along with many others, for the legislation in Congress that passed the Community Reinvestment …
New Orleans Dealing with the pandemic in the most basic ways has been a struggle for the last more than eighteen months for people all around the world. The health impacts have been devasting. In the United States, over 650,000 have died from the virus, eclipsing any other pandemic in our history now. …
Pearl River No question. Climate change is a big deal. For every hurricane alert, storm warning, and sudden street flooding, environmental consciousness is rising as quickly as the wind and water. If a lot of people care about something, then here come the scammers and marketeers, because, hey, this is America, land of the …