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".
June 30, 2021 New Orleans I’d never heard of the Lown Institute or their Shkreli Awards, but they came to my attention from an unlikely, but welcome, source, The National Geographic, in their recent issue. Maybe I should not have been surprised. The Geographic is no longer the animal and exotic picture book …
Jobless Figures or Propaganda or Both? June 29, 2021 New Orleans A pile of ruby-red states have announced an end to supplemental unemployment benefits. Most of them have not yet gone into effect, but some have. Interestingly, in this silent workers’ strike, observers don’t know what to make of it. Recent articles in the …
June 28, 2021 New Orleans With Bill Clinton as a two-term president, Hillary as about everything but president, and a couple of other shining lights, Arkansas always hopes to overlook the fact that it continually is in a contest with Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana for the bottom of every heap, as well as the …