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".
Greenville, Mississippi In the ongoing conservative war against the poor, welfare or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) spending was converted to a block grant program, allowing states, purportedly, to design their own best practices and programs. In many ideologically based, conservative dominated southern and up-north states, block grants allowed them to reduce or curtail …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The irony and contradictions around so-called “essential” workers are vexing – mainly to the workers themselves. They have to go to work because they are, by definition, essential, yet employers in the main seem both committed to labeling them as essential and continuing to …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It used to be that masks and guns were a bad combination that spoke of trouble with capital letters. Until recently, I would quip that if you were trying to raise money from a foundation these days that you needed a ski mask and …