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Format: 05-23-2013
Format: 05-23-2013
2012 Election Lessons Learned: How Voters Stood Up Against Suppression, ID, and Intimidation
The right to vote is just that – a fundamental right which is the cornerstone of American democracy. In the 2012 election, that sacred value was challenged in a way we have not seen in a couple of...
November 15, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Tova Wang
Election Spending 2012: Post-Election Analysis of Federal Election Commission Data
A new analysis of data through Election Day from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and other sources by U.S. PIRG and Demos shows how big outside spenders drowned out small contributions in 2012...
November 9, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Adam Lioz
Blair Bowie
Employment Credit Checks: The Case for Requiring Employers to Use More Accurate and Fair Assessments
A core value of American society is the opportunity to work hard and get ahead. Yet today in the United States, willing job-seekers are facing a new barrier to employment—credit checks. Despite the...
November 5, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Ben Peck
Election Spending 2012: A Pre-Election Analysis of Federal Election Commission Data
A new analysis of pre-election data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and other sources by U.S. PIRG and Demos shows that outside spending in the first presidential election since Citizens...
November 2, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Adam Lioz
Blair Bowie
Why Are 51 Million Eligible Americans Not Registered to Vote?
Former U.S. Representative Lincoln Davis, of Tennessee, knows something about elections and government, yet this year when he went to polls in his hometown where he’d been voting since 1995, he was...
November 1, 2012 | Explainer |
Brenda Wright
The Census Count and Prisoners: The Problem, The Solutions and What the Census Can Do
Demos is a national, non-profit, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization committed to building an America where democracy is robust and inclusive, with high levels of electoral...
October 26, 2012 | Testimony |
Ben Peck
Citizens Actually United: The Bi-Partisan Opposition to Corporate Political Spending And Support for Common Sense Reform
Americans of all political backgrounds agree: there is way too much corporate money in politics. Nine in 10 Americans (89%) agree with that statement, and 51 percent strongly agree. More than 80...
October 25, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Liz Kennedy
What Is A Corporation?
A corporation is a legal structure that enables individuals to contribute and pool resources, capital, and labor in order to generate a profit. Corporations are created by state law in the state in...
October 24, 2012 | Explainer |
Anthony Kammer
Democracy In A Mobile America
The freedom to vote is a cornerstone of American democracy. Voting brings us together as Americans and it is the one time we have an equal voice in the decisions that impact our lives and community....
October 1, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Youjin B. Kim
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy
In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the...
September 25, 2012 | Book |
Gus Speth