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 The typhoon that devastated large parts of the Philippines, in a Hurricane Katrina like disaster many are seeing as part of what we can expect regularly in the future from climate change, is inspiring protests by poor countries at the UN Climate Change Conference and some corporate social responsibility, but, sadly nowhere near enough, …
New Orleans There was a front page story in the Wall Street Journal about the fact that more and more of the remittance business from banks and money transfer organizations like Western Union and MoneyGram is between countries in Latin America rather than from US and Canadian immigrants to Latin America. Western Union in 10 …
New Orleans According to Professor Steven Davidoff of Ohio State more than one-third of the states now have a special designation for corporations wanting to establish themselves as social enterprises. In Louisiana, they are called L3C corporations meaning Low Profit Limited Liability Corporations. I read Davidoff’s “Deal Professor” column in the New York Times with …