October 29, 2009
In Their Rush to Abandon Acorn, Many Are Ignoring Its Accomplishments
The most recent attacks on Acorn, the largest low-income grass-roots network in the country with more than 400,000 members, have put the organization in grave danger.
The troubles facing Acorn are important not just because they put the survival of an important poverty-fighting group at risk but also because it demonstrates what could well happen to any nonprofit group — or other entity — that refuses to toe the line of conservative ideologues and activists. Such
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