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".
May 27, 2021 Little Rock As much as we might try to resist it, the more I read and listen to the Washington circus reports with one act after another taking the stage, complete with wild animals and constant juggling, I can’t help starting to handicap the likely outcomes. Take for example the almost two-trillion-dollar …
New Orleans Every time a bridge falls down, we think, darned, what about the infrastructure fixes that were promised by the president and just about everyone else from top to bottom in government. Increasingly though, I’ve come to believe that even though our bridges may be rickety from place to place, basic utilities may be …
New Orleans Phil Mattera has written a quarterly column for Social Policy for the last several years specializing in corporate accountability or the lack thereof. Phil files regular reports to his list, me included, of the Dirt Diggers Digest, to keep us up to date on corporate impunity and shenanigans, as part of the Corporate …