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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans While much of the country is stuck at the level of the federal minimum wage, there are enough states and cities that have nudged the numbers up that economists and others are starting to be able to tell with certainty whether the competing claims …
Washington Landing in President Trump’s “swamp” in Washington early in the morning, I turned on my phone for email. There was an ACTION ALERT! I knew it was important, because it was all in capital letters, the universal signal for emergency. Scanning quickly, it was not an emergency for me at all, but a …
New Orleans There are twenty-one states where workers are still frozen at something equivalent to the federal minimum wage at $7.25. Those states are disproportionately better “red than fed” in the South and West with a smattering in the Midwest and even the Northeast. I’m not saying there are any surprises here, but the …