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/2020/05/CN05242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Roughly 39 million Americans have applied for unemployment, not even counting gig and self-employed workers, workers who have abandoned job search, or couldn’t access the benefits, which means real unemployment is over 50 million. Statistical unemployment will be 17 or 18% but clearly, we’re at …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River As the economic numbers become more stark, and the economy teeters towards something closer to a depression than a recession, the impact on workers and the poor that has been hidden in plain sight for years is now almost impossible to ignore. Researchers, pundits, reporters, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock These are times like we have never seen before in the United States. The government is actually giving almost all of us some money up to $1200. If we’re among the eighteen million and rising “vast army of the unemployed,” we can get our check …