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 There’s a bit of dark humor we often engage in when we joke for one reason or another about big tech that “we’re just living in their world.” We’re talking about the ubiquitous conglomerates including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, or Alphabet if you will. In modern daily life …
New Orleans These are the tough choices. Hobson’s choices. Devil or the deep blue sea choices. Sacrificing one to save the many, or risking that all die. To read the daily papers is to find the Democrats in their thin majorities now having to bargain with themselves, libs to mods to worse, on …
New Orleans ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center have been studying hospitals for some years now. First, we looked at charity care in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and found that if nonprofits with tax exemptions simply hit the average of 4% of gross income as …