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Describe Yourself:The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots organization of low and moderate income people with over 220,000 members in over 100 cities. For 35 years, ACORN members have been organizing in their neighborhoods across the country around local issues such as affordable housing, safety, education, improved city services, and have taken the lead nationally on issues of affordable housing, tenant organizing, Katrina relief, fighting banking and insurance discrimination, organizing workfare workers, and winning jobs and living wages.
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