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How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

Research
Laura Williamson
Pamela Cataldo
Brenda Wright
In his final hours as U.S. Attorney General last month, Jeff Sessions issued a memo limiting the Justice Department’s power to pursue and enforce federal consent decrees with local police departments. [...] “This will allow the political leadership of DOJ to let abusive departments off the hook even
In the media
Candice Norwood
Advocates Praise Oklahoma’s Progress Adding Thousands of Voters to Rolls During Three-Year Settlement
Press release/statement
As Mark Huelsman, a policy analyst at Demos, an advocacy group tweeted: "the average family inheritance to a white college grad can pay off the average undergrad debt balance and have enough left over for a 20 percent down [payment] on a $575,000 home." That’s assuming the inheritor has student debt
In the media
Karlton Laster
Demos denounces Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s shameless signing of legislation that guts power from newly-elected Democrats.
Press release/statement
K. Sabeel Rahman
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The Green New Deal is a vision for comprehensive national policy that addresses climate change at the scale and scope we need, creates living-wage jobs, and addresses racial and economic inequity by investing in communities.
Blog
Adrien Salazar
Lew Daly

Most states have very far to go in making their selective public institutions representative, and thus truly public.

Research
Mark Huelsman
The Trump administration’s latest attack on immigrants, a proposed rule that would punish families for accessing public benefits, has rightfully come under fire for its potential to threaten children’s health and impose financial hardship on households and communities.
In the media
Amy Traub
The Trump administration’s “public charge” regulation would have harmed people like me and my mom.
Press release/statement
Causten E. Rodriguez-Wollerman
December 10, 2018 is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, in the aftermath of the fall of the Nazi regime, the United States joined many countries in the world and signed the Declaration. Several of the rights listed in the document were already within the U.S
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Algernon Austin