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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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“Heartless” Heartland and Its Modern Debtor Prison

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 6, 2015 by digital

New Orleans    The fight to guarantee accountability of nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals to their responsibilities to “do no harm” and operate for charitable purposes may have a new rule from the Treasury Department and the IRS requiring such care, but it seems we also have a “wanted” poster for one of the bad guys in …

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Medical Debt Collectors are Killing Credit for 43 Million!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues January 15, 2015 by digital

Little Rock   So the new IRS and Treasury rules are going to require that nonprofit hospitals, and hopefully for profits soon as well, stop a darned minute before they go to the debt collectors, mess up everyone’s credit, sue them, try to take their houses, and first born children if the law allowed.  That’s a …

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