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Already, some states are making changes. A legal settlement in Missouri led to more than 200,000 voter-registration applications from welfare offices in less than two years. A settlement in Ohio has led to more than 100,000 this year. Lawsuits are pending in Indiana and New Mexico.

Work by Demos and its partners suggests that millions of low-income Americans can be brought into the political process through proper implementation of an often-neglected provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) that requires states to provide voter registration services to

Obama put[s] the U.S. government solidly back on the side of the middle class

Heather McGhee on FinReg Passage

Today We Start Rebuilding the American Middle Class

Regulators can cap leverage if bank poses 'grave threat' to system Speier, who allowed that the overall bill is good, added that the rationale behind a detailed leverage cap is to keep big banks from growing so dangerously large that, if they were to fail, they'd cause collateral damage to the

Delaware Passes Law to Count Incarcerated Persons at their Home Addresses for Redistricting Becomes Second State To Adopt Reform Ensuring Fairness and Accuracy of Redistricting Dover — On June 30, the Delaware Senate passed a bill ensuring that incarcerated persons will be counted as residents of

Is Michigan following the law? Demos reports that in 2008 over 11 million low-income adult citizens remained unregistered to vote and the registration gap between low-income and high-income citizens was over 19 percentage points. And changes in how voter registration is done at public assistance

Election Day Registration (EDR) is a variety of Same Day Registration (SDR) that allows eligible voters to register and cast a ballot on Election Day. This “how-to guide” on EDR implementation and administration distills election officials’ first-hand insights into the effective implementation of

It may be a cliché that we are a nation of immigrants, but statistics show that it is as true today as in any other period in our history. And while Americans may debate the best way to bring noncitizens into the civic life of our communities, there is widespread, strong agreement that when someone