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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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Hazardous Duty Pay

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing May 5, 2020 by digital

New Orleans       The irony and contradictions around so-called “essential” workers are vexing – mainly to the workers themselves.  They have to go to work because they are, by definition, essential, yet employers in the main seem both committed to labeling them as essential and continuing to treat them, their health concerns, and their wage …

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Essential Workers Die First on the Job

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 13, 2020 by digital

New Orleans     The reports of pandemic deaths of essential workers are harrowing.  A lot of attention, deservedly, has been given to healthcare workers of all kinds who are living and breathing the virus in emergency rooms and intensive care units.  Others are also falling like flies.  A South Dakota Smithfield meatpacking plant was shut …

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