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 8, 2021 New Orleans ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative journalism operation, has somehow, mysteriously, come into possession of fifteen years of tax returns for many of the richest people in America. In a bombshell announcement, they dropped their first report on the twenty-five richest people in America, obviously including the easily recognizable names of Elon …
June 7, 2021 Pearl River Like a dog on a bone, I’m not going to get off of this argument I’ve now made a couple of times (Underemployed Strike is Winning, Are Unemployed Workers Striking?) that the current jobs situation in the US is not a worker shortage, as employers claim, but a worker rising. …
June 6, 2021 New Orleans Weatherization is old news in the United States. Such programs, though often woefully small, have been a staple of community action anti-poverty programs since the 1960s. Dilapidated and aging housing stock in lower income neighborhoods often meant atrociously high heating bills throughout the country. Shutoffs were common and emergency assistance …