Citizen Wealth Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families

November 8th, 2009 by admin

Citizen Wealth Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families

The federal government may have failed the poor, argues organizer and ACORN founder Wade Rathke, but there is another way: wealth-building. In Citizen Wealth, Rathke shows how food stamps, unemployment insurance, and tax relief offer temporary, stop-gap fixes but dont address the systemic problems that keep people from building up the assets they need to create a stable life for themselves and their families. A real, workable plan to end poverty, Rathke argues, requires a two-pronged approach. First, we need to create wealth through home ownership, and job acquisition and security, lengthens the distance between the poor house and the safe house. Second, we must also prevent the predatory attempts to reduce the relatively little wealth that many low and moderate-income families have. Such dual-track wealth-building approaches protect against the vicissitudes of income: temporary job loss, health issues, credit restrictions and more.

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1 Star Horrible Lies!
All they will tell you is how to embezzle from goverment run agencies and how to use “the system”….waste of time, money and paper.

5 Stars A fine set of stories and examples of these lessons
CITIZEN WEALTH: WINNING THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE WORKING FAMILIES tells of a rising gap between rich and poor and concurrent failing standards of living for millions of Americans. It shares the strategies that enabled ACORN founder and author Wade Rathke to pull together a holistic strategy for creating different types of wealth and assets, and provides a fine set of stories and examples of these lessons.

5 Stars awesome book!
A terrific read by the guy who (can now boast of having literally) wrote the book on modern community organizing.

Required reading for anyone who wants to help justify Fox News’ fear of a vast left wing conspiracy.

1 Star What a RIOT. Wade Rathke BwaaaaHaaaaaaHaaaaaa
Wade Rathke is going to tell America how to build wealth?

Maybe like his brother did while at ACORN?

Hello ACORN is all about voter fraud and the Community Reinvestment Act is one of THE MAJOR reasons for the recent financial meltdown in the USA.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to SOCIALIZE the USA.

5 Stars Long-awaited book
The author of Citizen Wealth, Wade Rathke, possesses a remarkable set of qualities that sets the book apart from virtually any other book I’ve seen. He is, first of all, a superb writer on complex topics. He also has had an amazing career working with political, business, and community leaders over a span of almost forty years. From the beginning of his career, his articles, memos, and blog entries have analyzed complex economic, political, and social issues in terms that ground them in peoples’ lives. He has also maintained a visionary, optimistic, and energized attitude toward improving the lives of ordinary people through activism and empowerment. This book draws on those amazing qualities and offers a profoundly innovative way forward for our society, economy, and nation to reward the hard work of all its people, protect the rights of all citizens, and pursue justice in fundamental and practical ways.

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