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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In the Age of Trump, we biscuit cookers get used to hearing disassembling, tall tales, falsehoods, exaggerations, spin, or, not to mince words, lies, on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. These are dangerous days in the White House. After many moons with a drought …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock Once upon a time we might have been able to look at the Department of Labor to lead the way in drawing the bright lines that establish whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, regular or temporary. If that didn’t work, perhaps …
New Orleans With statistical unemployment below 4% for the first time in years, economists, policy makers, politicians, and self-interested hucksters have found something new to throw statistics at each other backwards and forwards: is the gig economy growing or slowing? At many levels one might say it depends on who you ask. At another level …