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/2019/11/CN11172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans While much of the country is stuck at the level of the federal minimum wage, there are enough states and cities that have nudged the numbers up that economists and others are starting to be able to tell with certainty whether the competing claims …
New Orleans In the breathless and world shaking tone common to television and radio broadcasts, economists were trying to parse the numbers in the federal report on jobs and wages for February. Growth was almost nonexistent at 20,000 new hires, and there was a lot of “he-say, she saying” back and forth on that. …