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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having said for decades that in any group it is always possible, through observation and listening, to identify the organizers, the leaders, and the underlying structure, no matter how informal and supposedly anti-hierarchical and structureless the formation, I was thunderstruck to see the mention …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Reading about Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his Opportunity Atlas, led me to check it out. The overarching lesson of the atlas is that your chances of doing better, in other words social and economic mobility, are tracked closely to you state, city, and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN partnered with Ken Reardon and his team from various universities that he mobilized for the recovery after Katrina to create the Peoples’ Plan for the Ninth Ward. His students and volunteers surveyed every property and assessed the level of damage and whether or …