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".
Greenville, Mississippi In the ongoing conservative war against the poor, welfare or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) spending was converted to a block grant program, allowing states, purportedly, to design their own best practices and programs. In many ideologically based, conservative dominated southern and up-north states, block grants allowed them to reduce or curtail …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Central America doesn’t get the press on the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s as real there as it is in other countries, except perhaps more dangerous since these countries lack the same level of infrastructure and capacity. Guatemala managed to break into the news cycle …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River There’s no good time to be poor in America. Not surprisingly, a pandemic bringing rampant disease and deaths in droves is a spectacularly bad time to be poor. Some are even noticing the poor now, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that a whole lot …