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 22, 2021 Pearl River Talking to Michelle Miller-Adams on Wade’s World, you get the notion that the drive to reduce the trillion-dollar student debt deficit and the fight for free higher education are welded together at the hip. Miller-Adams is a senior research at the Upjohn Institute and a political science professor at Grand …
May 21, 2021 New Orleans Now that the US and some other countries are increasingly opening up, shots in arm, masks dangling from their ears, we are hearing one pity-party story after another from some of the bright lights about how they spent time in quarantine or lockdown. It’s not pretty. There are endless tales …
May 20, 2021 New Orleans There was a sub-head in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that was arresting. The author, identified, or more likely disguised, as only a “Florida-based writer” although seemingly a regular columnist for the rightwing tabloid, the New York Post — which is also owned, like the Journal, by …