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/CN08312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans When someone from the very conservative, totally pro-business American Enterprise Institute feels it is necessary to remind people that a simple cost-benefit analysis was not necessarily appropriate when evaluating social programs, we have to wonder whether something is terribly amiss or at the least …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Well, the corporate bigshots cleared their throats, and the headline writers acted like it was news. In business terms this would be the equivalent of trying to get something for nothing. The Business Roundtable, a largely irrelevant propaganda and lobbying outfit for big companies, …
New Orleans The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has glowingly taken credit for many of the bills sweeping newly elected Republican state houses. ALEC and its 2000 legislative members has long been the driver of the far right agenda. Finally, they have been forced to retreat from published reports because of the withdrawal of foundation …