Jon's looking out for us, so let's have his back while he's under attack from those who would rather blame the crisis on hard working Americans.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
After years of shrinking commitments, the Obama budget increases our investment in programs that fundamentally improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income families.
Gabriel Beltrone & Matthew Palevsky | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
This piece on the foreclosure crisis was produced as part of HuffPost's citizen journalism initiative. Reporting by Lauren Cannon, Leia Ford, Richard ...
Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
This story was reported and written by Leia Ford. She is one of the HuffPost citizen journalists helping cover the on the ground effects of the forecl...
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
The story of America's housing crisis often ends up being told in a stream of numbers -- hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, thousands of forecl...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Barr: "Poor people rot in jail for doing far less damage than corporate criminals at the top who are coddled after committing more far-reaching offenses."
Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Yesterday marked the launch of ACORN's Home Defenders Campaign, which seeks to use civil disobedience techniques, complemented by mass communication (...
Ed Hamilton | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Recently, a 75-year old man was evicted from his apartment. His crime? Being in the way of the owners' desire to turn the Chelsea into a boutique tourist hotel charging $500 per night.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Additional reporting by Jerry Waxman Avery Salkey bought her brand new four-bedroom home in Palm Beach County for $234,550 in 2003. After making a ...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Our foreclosure campaign will continue until the crisis has passed. We will continue to work to save individual families who are caught up in the mess through the ACORN Home Defenders.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
The Arpaio spectacle shows that a police-state solution does not work.
Brad Friedman | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
An official state investigation is now underway into multiple voter fraud charges against Rightwing author and one-time attorney Ann Coulter in Connecticut.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
We need your help. Have you been affected by the housing meltdown? Foreclosed on? Record your story, or the story of a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor, and send it to us.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
By showing that communities are refusing to participate in their own decimation, we will force elected officials to finally shift their emphasis from bailing out Wall Street to bailing out Main Street.
ZP Heller | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
ACORN is taking action at the local and national level, doing everything they can to help people hang onto their homes and renegotiate the terms of predatory loans.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
It is absurd that people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are controlling the terms of debate for a package they will never support anyway.
Danny Schechter | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
The sense of real world pain is not visible in the backrooms of Congress. As the financial crisis deepens, the locus of change will move from the suites to the streets.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Right-wing media outlets are pick up the ridiculous talking points from the GOP leadership attacking Obama's stimulus package by claiming that it gives ACORN a $4.19 billion bailout. Puh-lease, people!
Tara L. Conley | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Brave New Foundation provides an interactive platform so that people whose homes have been foreclosed on can tell their stories and be key players in the debate in Washington.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Given the urgency of the crisis and the lack of attention paid to the families bearing the brunt of the economic meltdown, ACORN is taking its foreclosure campaign to a new level of militancy.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
This MLK day, I will celebrate the efforts of Dr. King by participating in just one of the many thousands of MLK Day service projects planned across the country.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
Because of reality facing America's low- and moderate-income communities, ACORN members and their neighborhoods function as the canaries in our nation's economic coal mine.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
[Via Newshounds] On last night's edition of Hannity and Colmes, the show's hosts took up the issue of the ongoing Minnesota Senate race, with Sean Han...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
If I could hug everyone at once, I would. Without everyone who stood with us it would have been impossible to fight back the way we did.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
With an historic Election Day tomorrow, the McCain-Palin campaign's ACORN-voter fraud endgame may be to use their attacks as a justification for a wave of legal challenges to close election results in key states.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics