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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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Berea College, Work Colleges, Tax Bills, and Student Loan Ripoffs

Education December 24, 2017December 26, 2017 by digital

Gulfport   Berea College is as close as something comes to a one-of-a-kind, single institution, social change education experiment. Founded 162 years ago by abolitionists in Kentucky to educate freed slaves and lower income white students, to this day the college only admits lower income students. The Times reports that 98% of its classes use federal …

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The Attack on Lower Income College Students is Widespread and Predatory

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice May 19, 2014 by digital

Little Rock       When it comes to looking at the plight and prospects for students from lower income and working families it is not a matter of “no news is good news,” but all the news is bad news!   Let us count just some of the ways…. The Supreme Court kicks affirmative action to the curb …

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