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".
Pearl River When President Bill Clinton, working with Speaker Gingrich, passed their deform welfare bill thirty years ago, converting the program from an entitlement for the lowest income Americans, women with dependent children, to block grants from the federal government to the states, ending in Clinton’s words “welfare as we know it,” it was …
New Orleans Out here in the cheap seats, most of us would think that the US Defense Secretary would be wildly busy, what with Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Israel, the Ukraine, NATO, China, and the list just goes on and on, but I guess we would be wrong. He’s got plenty of time and …
New Orleans I often find myself defending the city and state where I vote, when outsiders and transplants insinuate that there is appalling, deep seated corruption here. I usually point out that indictments are notoriously political, and Louisiana is a crazy political state and has been for generations. Actual convictions are less common …