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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: State of the Union

Kicking Them When They’re Down

Ideas and Issues February 1, 2018February 4, 2018 by digital

Boston     Around Boston, this is their time of the year.  Another Super Bowl football extravaganza, and once again, yawn, the New England Patriots are in the big show.  The Boston Globe sports section was full of comparisons of future Hall of Famer Tom Brady’s matchup with recent backup quarterback Nick Foles for the Philadelphia …

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Trump Uses State of Disunion Speech to Take Shots at Workers

Ideas and Issues January 31, 2018 by digital

Springfield  President Trump came into his first State of the Union speech marking the end of his first year in office with the lowest level of popular support for his job performance in modern times with only 37% of the American people approving his work according to polls.  Perhaps unsurprisingly he used the opportunity to …

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Maybe the Republicans Don’t Want to Run the Country, Just the States?

Ideas and Issues National Politics January 13, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   President Obama predictably in his last State of the Union address made the case for unity, change, and a new politics. Makes sense. For the Democrats there is a bedrock belief in the future, demographics is destiny. Change is a friend. All things will come to those who wait. How do we understand …

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