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".
July 13, 2021 New Orleans In a fantastic development, America’s children are poised to finally benefit from the extraordinary wealth of the country in the biggest development since Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Treasury Department is racing to begin to make payments authorized under President Biden’s stimulus package in a dramatic assault on child poverty. …
July 12, 2021 New Orleans Since the pandemic began, I’ve been canoeing regularly. When I’m in town, I’m on the water three times a week. I’ve gone from two canoes to five, somehow imagining family and friends out on the water with me on some occasion, no matter how unlikely. I paddle regularly on …
July 11, 2021 Pearl River A book that came my way, courtesy of Father’s Day, thank you my loves, turned out to be surprisingly interesting. Marcia Chatelain, a history professor at Georgetown, had written Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. I approached the book with some trepidation, fearful that this was going to be …