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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".

Tag: economic justice

Housing Crisis Forcing Rich Cities to Get Smaller

Ideas and Issues February 20, 2020 by digital

New Orleans        A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an interesting and important way.  In a recent article about some of the unintended consequences of geographic inequality being concentrated in certain cities, he pointed out several things.  First, that the level of economic activity concentrated …

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Crisis of Accountability for Microfinance in India

Ideas and Issues November 18, 2010November 25, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Microfinance has many positives, but should never be confused or misnamed as a “poverty reduction” strategy.   There is simply no way to reduce poverty through debt.  Microfinance or microcredit or micro-lending or whatever the name has a value for the poor as a way to access minimal credit to create or improve livelihoods, …

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Santa Barbara Finally Pulls Up Short

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice December 26, 2009 by wade

Quepos            It was an extra present under the palm tree to read in the pre-dawn that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was being pulled out of the business of factoring RALs, predatory refund anticipation loan for Jackson & Hewitt and other companies in the viciously competitive tax services market for lower  income and working families.  …

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Loans for Students not Predators

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice July 22, 2009 by wade

Baltimore If we didn’t have so many fast deals and multi-billion dollar scams to read about every day, then the student loan situation would be a scandal that doesn’t stop shaming everyone who touches it. Finally we have a chance to streamline the process and take out the sticky fingered middlemen skimming the cream off …

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