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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".

Tag: Republican Tax Plan

Whining of Charities is Unseemly

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice December 30, 2017 by digital

Gulfport  The recently approved tax bill is an abomination without any doubt. It’s claims of reform are a poorly crafted mask for a transfer of wealth from virtually all of us over the coming years to the coffers of the rich and corporations. Despite a couple of public relations stunts based largely on favorable tax …

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Berea College, Work Colleges, Tax Bills, and Student Loan Ripoffs

Education December 24, 2017December 26, 2017 by digital

Gulfport   Berea College is as close as something comes to a one-of-a-kind, single institution, social change education experiment. Founded 162 years ago by abolitionists in Kentucky to educate freed slaves and lower income white students, to this day the college only admits lower income students. The Times reports that 98% of its classes use federal …

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Is There No Limit to Corruption in Politics in the Age of Trump?

National Politics December 23, 2017December 26, 2017 by digital

Gulfport   I really wanted to write about the implosion of the Miss America pageant: finally! Sadly, I’m not sure there’s anyway to kill that retro-abomination. The fact that the bosses at such a well known and widely advertised meat market would speak of the women like little more than carcasses is hardly a surprise …

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