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27 Jul 2010

ACORN deserves an apology, too

by David Morris | Date: 27 Jul 2010 | posted in: equity, From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0

Shirley Sherrod has her job back and a presidential apology. ACORN is still waiting. The cases are remarkably similar. Both Sherrod and ACORN were demonized by highly edited videos appearing on right-wing websites and widely publicized by Fox News and … Read More

23 Sep 2009

ACORN: Federal Government’s Best Investment Ever

by David Morris | Date: 23 Sep 2009 | posted in: equity, From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0

To understand the current attacks on ACORN, and the organization itself, we need to go back more than 60 years, to the 1930s and the New Deal, when for the first time, the federal government accepted responsibility for directly helping … Read More