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The existence of the U.S. middle class is in peril. Young people between the ages of 18 and 34 are living in a more fragile economic environment than 30 years ago. If something isn't done to help them lead more economically stable lives, they'll never make it into the middle class. That's the
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Pamela Ferrara
A coalition of civil rights groups are preparing an amicus brief to defend the “No Representation Without Population Act” challenged in Fletcher v. Lamone. Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law requiring the state to count prisoners at their home addresses is protective of minority voting rights.
Press release/statement
Ok, it’s true. The Obama Administration did make an environmental decision based on politics and undue outside influence. But it’s not the one that you think.
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J. Mijin Cha
If libertarians had been calling the shots in Washington in the fall of 2008, the United States might now be in a second Great Depression.
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David Callahan
Another day, another misleading and false attack on clean energy funded by Koch Industries, which makes billions of dollars from a variety of polluting industries.
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J. Mijin Cha
A basic reason that people break rules is that they believe they can get away with it. And you're more likely to think that you can cheat without consequence if you know that watchdogs won't bark, much less bite. This observation doesn't just jive intuitively with our understanding of human nature
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David Callahan
Public approval of Congress is now at its lowest level ever recorded by modern polling, so it's no surprise that Governor Rick Perry might find this branch of government a juicy target; Perry said yesterday that he favored cutting pay for members of Cong
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David Callahan
Occupy Wall Street has, in the words of John Paul Rollert, “come to embody a common sense that something is wrong with American capitalism.” The problem Rollert points to is not with capitalism itself, but with a particular American version that has ceased to work for broad cross-sections of its
In the media
Blatant redistribution, the argument goes, may fly in Europe with its strong class identity, but is a non-starter here, where the value of individual self-reliance is dominant. Is this really true?
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David Callahan

The assault on the right to vote witnessed in 2011 is historic in terms of its geographic scope and intensity. Legislation enacted in states across the country to require government-issued photo identification and/or prove citizenship to register to vote, make voter registration more difficult, and

Testimony and Public Comment