WADE RATHKE

ACORN founder Wade Rathke will read from his book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, in which he shows how food stamps, unemployment insurance, and tax relief offer temporary fixes but don't address the problems that keep people from creating a stable life for themselves. A real, workable plan to end poverty, Rathke argues, requires a two-pronged approach. Such dual-track wealth-building approaches protect against the vicissitudes of income: temporary job loss, health issues, credit restrictions and more.