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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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Predatory Face of Microlending Becoming Clearer

Ideas and Issues August 23, 2019August 25, 2019 by digital

New Orleans        ACORN International has done several reports over the years stating our position clearly:  microfinance is not a poverty reduction program.  Doing so, we knew we were running way outside the herd of the prevailing donor-based and donor-funded consensus, but facts are facts.  Debt doesn’t reduce poverty.  Maybe you buy a job for …

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The Transparent Cynicism of Medicaid Work Requirements

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 by digital

Little Rock    Every spring soon or later I sit down for an annual cup of coffee with Ernie Dumas, former editorial writer for the Arkansas Gazette and currently still an op-ed columnist for the weekly Arkansas Times, but mainly an old friend from “back in the day” where we mark the ways our paths have …

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Interviews with Wade

04/16/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

Corporate Knights: The Magazine for Clean Capitalism

Intrepid Liberal Journal

The Peter B Collins Show

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