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Format: 05-23-2013
Format: 05-23-2013
Florida’s Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine Its Future Middle Class
Just as a postsecondary education has become essential for getting a decent job and entering the middle class, it has become financially out of reach for many of America’s young people. State support...
August 20, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Viany Orozco
Texas’ Investment in Higher Education Lags Behind Student Needs and Workforce Demands
Just as postsecondary education has expanded opportunities for good jobs and entry into the middle class, college costs are rising beyond the reach of many Americans. State policy decisions are...
August 20, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Demos
Center For Public Policy Priorities
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms...
August 18, 2012 | Book |
Tova Andrea Wang
Amicus Brief, Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
The United States Student Association (“USSA”), the nation’s oldest and largest student- run, student-led organization, is comprised of more than four million students with diverse backgrounds who...
August 14, 2012 | Litigation |
United States Student Association
Background on Delgado v. Galvin Interim Settlement
In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)—commonly known as the “motor voter” law—to boost election participation by ensuring that all eligible citizens have ample...
August 8, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Demos
Million-Dollar Megaphones: Super PACs and Unlimited Outside Spending in the 2012 Elections
Although each major party presidential candidate will likely break previous fundraising records, the big story of the 2012 election has been the role of Super PACs, nonprofits and outside spending...
August 2, 2012 | Report |
Adam Lioz
Blair Bowie
New Mexico's Rising Economic Risks From Climate Change
New Mexico’s current political leadership is undoing state and regional policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions even as the risks posed by global warming to the state’s economy and population...
July 26, 2012 | Report |
Robert Repetto, PhD
Senate Testimony of Adam Lioz, Counsel at Demos, Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs
Thank you for this opportunity to submit testimony regarding the damage that Citizens United and the rise of Super PACs has done to our system of democratic government.  In the text below I will...
July 24, 2012 | Testimony |
Adam Lioz
A LIBOR Scandal Primer
What does the acronym, “LIBOR,” stand for? The “London Inter-bank Offered Rate.” What does LIBOR represent? LIBOR is promoted as representing the average interest rate that large banks can borrow...
July 17, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Wallace C. Turbeville
Equal Employment for All Act Letter
Dear Representative: We urge you to cosponsor “The Equal Employment for All Act” (H.R. 321), introduced by Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN). In addition to the weak economy, job- seekers today...
July 13, 2012 | Advocacy Letter |
Leadership Conference
Demos