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Format: 06-18-2013
Format: 06-18-2013
Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals
Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the...
April 3, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
US PIRG
The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine The Future Middle Class
This report examines how state disinvestment in public higher education over the past two decades has shifted costs to students and their families. Such disinvestment has occurred alongside rapidly...
April 3, 2012 | Report |
John Quinterno
Viany Orozco
Testimony in Support of the DISCLOSE Act, United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Chairman Schumer, Ranking Member Alexander, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of Demos for the record in support of the Democracy is...
March 29, 2012 | Testimony |
Liz Kennedy
The Budget for All: An Analysis of The Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Fiscal Year 2013 budget, Budget for All, offers an important alternative to both the Obama Administration’s budget and that presented last week by Paul Ryan and...
March 29, 2012 | Policy Brief |
David Callahan
Jack Temple
The Good Jobs Deficit: Remarks to the Hudson Valley Coalition for a Fair Economy
We have heard a great deal this evening about the very urgent need for jobs in this country and for public investment that can both create those jobs and address public needs and get our economy...
March 12, 2012 | Speech |
Amy Traub
Testimony in Support of Same Day Registration in Connecticut, Steven Carbo
Thank you Chairpersons Slossberg and Morin, and members of the Government Administration and Elections Committee, for this opportunity testify in support of H.B. 5024. My name is Steven Carbó, Senior...
March 1, 2012 | Testimony |
Steven Carbo
Little v. LATFOR
In 2010, New York passed a law mandating that incarcerated persons be counted at their home residences for the purposes of drawing state legislative districts. Prior to the legislation’s enactment,...
February 24, 2012 | Litigation |
Demos
Federal Appeals Court Ruling Finding NM Officials in Violation of National Voter Registration Act
This unanimous panel decision was written by Chief Judge Briscoe and was joined by Judges Gorsuch and Matheson.  The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in support of...
February 22, 2012 | Litigation |
Lisa J. Danetz
Vermont Testimony: Against Employment Credit Checks by Amy Traub
Thank you, members of the Committee for this opportunity to present testimony. I am a Senior Policy Analyst in the Economic Opportunity Program at Dēmos. We are a national, non-partisan research and...
February 22, 2012 | Testimony |
Amy Traub
Putting Vermont Money Back to Work for Vermont: Introducing the Vermont Partnership Bank
Vermont can put deposits of state tax revenue to use in ways that tilt the economic playing field back toward Main Street businesses, our community banks, and long-term job growth. The proposed state...
February 20, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Heather C. McGhee
Jason Judd