Andrew Golis

It doesn’t get much media attention when John Edwards isn’t attached to it (see below), but it’s growing:

With offices in 106 cities and a membership reported to be 200,000, ACORN has emerged in recent years as the largest neighborhood-based antipoverty group in the country, using old-fashioned methods of door-knocking and noisy protests to push for local and national causes. It plans to open an office in 20 new cities each year for the next five years, an expansion in response to the strong grip conservatives have in Washington and to the travails of the working poor.
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“What sets ACORN apart from most community groups,” said Peter Dreier, an urban planning expert at Occidental College in Los Angeles, “is its ability to combine local projects with coordinated national action on larger issues.”

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