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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".

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Big Mistakes on Countrywide and Healthcare Polls

Health Care Ideas and Issues National Politics June 30, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …

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Bank of America’s Countrywide: One of the Worst Deals Ever

Financial Justice Foreclosure December 22, 2011 by wade

New Orleans – In one of the many articles on yet another multi-$100 million settlement, one story, almost in an aside, stated that the purchase of Countrywide’s assets by Bank of America, was “one of the worst deals ever.”  The price tag for Bank of America has been billions. This settlement with the Justice Department …

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Bank of America’s Countrywide Ghoul Strikes Again

Advocates and Actions Foreclosure September 16, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times are raising the specter of Bank of America filing for bankruptcy for its Countrywide mortgage unit detonating the “nuclear” option to save the parent company and run from the toxic mortgage load bought in 2008.  I wonder if this doesn’t finally give another explanation …

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