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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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Regressive Property Taxes Slam Lower Income Families

Ideas and Issues April 5, 2021 by Chief Organizer

April 5, 2021 New Orleans               Once you start looking at property tax assessments, you don’t know what you might end up doing when the stark reality of the inequity of regressive taxation hits you full in the face. At least that’s what happened to us almost fifty years ago …

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Some Good News for Low-Income Families Hoping for Homes in Cincy & Detroit

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice July 6, 2018 by digital

New Orleans       For lower income and working families in these days of escalating rents and no money flowing in the credit deserts, the old saying that if it “weren’t for bad news, there wouldn’t be any news at all” feels too much like an everyday story.  In Detroit and Cincinnati recently, there was some good …

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Detroit Paradox: People Who Need Houses and Houses that Need People

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure November 14, 2017November 16, 2017 by digital

Detroit    Rarely is there a day in organizing when each meeting seems to be with one person after another who is smart as a whip, committed all in, and shoulder to the wheel, as we found in Detroit, but rarely is there also a day in which each story sometimes seemed a version of Sisyphus …

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