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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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The Trump Uniform and Other Stereotypes

Ideas and Issues August 20, 2016 by digital

New Orleans    Donald Trump showed up for three hours in Baton Rouge yesterday to make whatever hay he might out of the 1000-year flood in the area. Obama will be coming next week. He’ll be leaving his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard or some such and answering the cries of daily editorials in the Louisiana newspapers …

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Maybe the Republicans Don’t Want to Run the Country, Just the States?

Ideas and Issues National Politics January 13, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   President Obama predictably in his last State of the Union address made the case for unity, change, and a new politics. Makes sense. For the Democrats there is a bedrock belief in the future, demographics is destiny. Change is a friend. All things will come to those who wait. How do we understand …

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Wages Up but How High is Fair?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice February 20, 2015 by digital

New Orleans       Walmart has announced that over a half-million of its workers will get a raise to $9 now and up to $10 sometime in 2016 at the cost of one-billion dollars.  This is good news, so I won’t remind people of the Pinocchio stories the company has told for years about its so-called average …

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