New Orleans On the streets in lower income and working communities, a generation of community organizers has argued that, everything being equal, our gumbo neighborhoods of mixed and matched families, races, and ethnicities in fact work, and work well, when people are able to organize together and act collectively. The academic community has not been very …
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Fighting to Lower the Digital Divide, ACORN Canada Issues Horror Report
Little Rock What do you do with a bully? Slap ‘em in the face. Or, embarrass them. ACORN Canada did both by celebrating Halloween by issuing a “Horror Report” based on a survey of almost 300 of our members. Canada, perhaps even more than the US, allows a virtual monopoly with three companies holding the …
Microcredit is Still a “Buy a Subsistence Job” Program
Little Rock There was a long, hopeful report on the supposed growth of microcredit among lower income families in the United States in the New York Times, but no matter how much slipping and falling we might have endured around invisible statistics, there was no way to avoid the bottom line conclusion that microcredit was …