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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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The Painful Tragedy of the Digital Divide

Ideas and Issues February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 by digital

Little Rock    For more almost 25 years, Local 100 United Labor Unions has represented school support workers mostly in Texas and Louisiana from Head Start to high school from teachers to bus drivers to cafeteria workers and janitors. Most of our work is concentrated in the cities now, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and …

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Locating Housing for the Poor: Good Intentions, Expediency, and Living with the Consequences

Citizen Wealth Rebuild New Orleans December 4, 2012December 4, 2012 by digital

 Quito    One of the ironic outcomes of recent disasters, whether New Orleans or now New York, is that the public, policy makers, and politicians are finally forced to reckon with where the poor are, and often, where they have put the poor in ways that are hard to escape.  In a smaller way this is …

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Federal Judge Holds Vouchers are Resegretation in Louisiana with More to Come

Education November 28, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  A federal judge in Louisiana took a hard shot to the gut to the conservative efforts to provide public money to help some parents pay for their children to escape public schools.  He called it what it was:  an effort to re-segregate the school system.  The basis of the decision was equally clear.  …

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