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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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Essential Workers and Pay Equity

Ideas and Issues November 16, 2020 by digital

New Orleans      In a moment of youthful recklessness more than fifty years ago, I allowed myself to get into one of those dangerous political conversations with the father of a woman I was seeing.  He was a good, decent guy and Republican to the core, even in those days when Louisiana was deep, deep …

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Making Working Men More Economically Attractive

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice March 21, 2013March 21, 2013 by digital

Little Rock     The headline was no tipoff on this piece in the Times’ business section.   Another article about how much the economics of single parent households really suck, blah, blah, blah, please tell us something we didn’t know, will ya?  So they did by basically in so many words and with all due concern letting …

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Wiki-worlds Need More Women & Less Snarky-ness!

Ideas and Issues January 31, 2011 by wade

Toronto What is it about the Wiki-worlds that seems to encourage no boundaries, let it rip, snarky-ness?  I don’t get it, but I’m pretty sure it needs to be fixed. Two cases in point:  New York Times editor Bill Keller’s piece on Julian Assange and Wikileaks and the “calling all women” initiative at Wikipedia’s 10th …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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