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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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Doubtful Help for Unemployed Foreclosure Victims

Financial Justice Foreclosure July 8, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Secretary Shaun Donovan and President Obama made yet another HUD announcement of another faux “program” to help foreclosure victims, which once again will not work and plays yet more patty cake with banks and their loan servicers.  These charades have become something like a marker of seasons passing as we record yet more …

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Reckoning Coming for Home Modification Failures

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure February 28, 2011 by wade

New Orleans The good news is that more people are recognizing that the Administration’s HAMP program designed to achieve home mortgage modifications and prevent foreclosures has been a dismal failure.   The bad news is that the Republicans are arguing that rather than fix it and actually prevent foreclosures, the program should be killed to save …

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Wikileaks, Japan, Sea Shepherd, Australia, and Bank of America

Financial Justice International National Politics January 4, 2011 by wade

New Orleans On the other side of the line there’s still a whining wall about Wikileaks and the end of the world as we know it (and, yes, you atavistic Neanderthals, I do “love Wikileaks” for what they are contributing these days!), but the New Year’s Day release of cables from Wikileaks connecting the links …

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