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/2019/08/CN09012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Ann Carpenter works with the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. Her work in understanding the challenges and predation for lower income families trying to buy homes has been outstanding. Almost exactly two years ago, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign met with her in a …
Little Rock Any time the head of the American Bankers Association says that it’s a good thing that any part of the government is looking at rewriting and revising the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, known popularly as the CRA, it’s very bad news for lower-income and racially diverse communities. Sad, but true, that’s exactly the …
Houston Seven years after the wheels started coming off the bank’s mad money train, it seems clear that settlements for mortgage abuse, which is euphemism for fraud, Dodd-Frank legislation, and what should have been the awesome weight of having collapsed the US and world economy and upended the lives of millions, have essentially been water …