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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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DOL Takes Paid Leave Away from Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Health Care September 22, 2020September 25, 2020 by digital

New Orleans     This is complicated, so hang with me, but here is what you need to know. Nursing home workers and other frontline healthcare providers like home health aides, and community home workers for the differently able account for perhaps the largest portion of the death count, as we pass 200,000 fatalities nationally from …

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Coronavirus Gutting Platform Capitalism and Promoting A Real Safety Net

Ideas and Issues March 11, 2020 by digital

New Orleans        As the virus and its impact spreads, it is creating a new world of unexpected consequences and reckonings for outdated assumptions. Here’s one that might be uncomfortable news for the White House:  we do live in one world, and walls will not protect us. Here’s another:  the social safety net in Europe …

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Experience Shows Little Reason to Oppose Sick Leave Policies

Ideas and Issues March 27, 2012 by digital

Miami    Gradually the community-labor campaign for paid sick leave in various states and cities is quietly making progress even in the throes of the Great Recession.   Connecticut has passed such a policy statewide.  San Francisco has had a policy in effect since 2007 giving 1 hour of sick leave (usable for a variety of purposes) for …

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