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".
May 25, 2021 Atlanta Here’s a simple riddle: What is $51 billion dollars, larger than the entire budget of the federal Housing & Urban Development (HUD) agency, and invisible? The tragic answer: the tenant and landlord assistance from the various pandemic stimulus programs. The program and the money have become the stuff of urban legend. …
May 24, 2021 Atlanta Organizing in the pandemic has been incredibly hard, but, hey, organizing is always hard. We adapt. We do the best we can. Timelines change. Plans and programs are delayed. A sprint becomes a marathon, over and over. This is just the way the work is. Whoever might be complaining needs to …
May 23, 2021 Pearl River Demographers are now saying that by the middle of the 21st century there will be more deaths globally than births. The replacement rate is 2.1 children per family and many countries are already falling below that rate. South Korea is below 1.0 now. Even China and India are dealing with …