Full Name
Wade Rathke
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Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International as well as Local 100 United Labor Unions and the Publisher of Social Policy magazine. Wade is also the founder, and served as the Chief Organizer of ACORN for 39 years.
He has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning social justice, workers rights, and a democracy where “the people shall rule”.
Recent Articles by Author
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Before the Cut, Think Twice
Few of us who ever had a saw in hand, hovering over a piece of lumber, that have not heard the old adage, “measure twice, cut once”. Something similar might be good advice in making decisions about your own health, especially when it comes to surgeries.Randomized controlled trials are recognized as…
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How Safe is US Voting?
With all of the self-serving disinformation coming from down low and up high about the security of voting in the midterm elections, it’s fair to ask, “what’s the real deal?” I tuned into a webinar presented by SciLine and organized by the American Association for the Advancement of…
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Trump and FEMA’s Hurricane Luck
Hurricane Isaias is coming through the Gulf of Mexico and expected to make landfall as a category 3 storm somewhere near Pensacola, Florida. There are storm warnings in a large cone along the Alabama and Florida coasts. Earlier in the week, New Orleans was part of the prediction as the storm…
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Book Bans and Librarians
Book bans are a conservative cause du jour in many parts of the country. PEN America reports that there were over 12,000 books that were banned in public schools in 2025. Texas and Florida are at the top of the leader board in this new censorship movement. School administrators on the chopping…