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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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Limited Bandwidth for the Poor is not Just an Internet Issue

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice September 22, 2013 by digital

New Orleans    The fact that ACORN International has been fighting hammer and tong in Canada and other countries and with Local 100 United Labor Unions in the USA with Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox to expand internet access to lower income families might have been what led me to notice an article about “bandwidth for the …

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Millennium Village Projects, Internet Access, and Understanding the Poor

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice International September 17, 2013September 17, 2013 by digital

New Orleans    As the gap between rich and poor widens, there is huge confusion from the uppers about what in the world are the lowers thinking and doing.   I read an article the other day about the controversy in South Africa over a young family with two children who moved into a house in the …

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Hey, You! Start Learning the US Federal Poverty Guidelines!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform September 15, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  There are two more weeks on the countdown to your chance to finally get health care coverage for you and your family, if you don’t have it, or to potentially get some help in paying for it, if you do have it, and my bet is many of you are still clueless about …

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