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Threats to Ballot Access: New Report Examines Risks of Wrongful Voter Removals Across the Country

Dēmos examines ballot access issues, voter suppression in AZ, GA, OH, CA, IN, WI, MI, NC, TX, LA 

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August 10, 2023

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Unfinished Business: Revisiting Dodd-Frank and the Path to Economic Progress

On the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, we reflect on recent banking failures and the inequities inherent in our current financial system. 

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Daniella Zessoules
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A Supreme Court Power Grab: Attacking Federal Agencies to Advance an Extremist Agenda

Why the Court's decision to limit the EPA's power to regulate water access is yet another case of eroding the power of the other branches of government at the expense of Black and brown people.

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Ashley Tjhung
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Supreme Court's Rejection of Affirmative Action Widens the Divide: Dēmos Calls for Renewed Efforts to Combat Systemic Racism

“The 14th Amendment is supposed to be a shield against racism, and now it’s being used as a sword.” 

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Taifa Smith Butler

House votes to roll back post-2008 financial rules

"The CHOICE Act would lead our nation in the wrong direction, further skewing our public policies towards the interests of top donors and away from the needs of working families and people of color as a whole", Demos associate policy director Amy Traub said in a statement prior to the vote.
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Johnny Bowman

OpEd: Trump Won’t Address Critical Infrastructure Needs of African-Americans

The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America’s infrastructure a D+ grade. No doubt, if they focused on just the infrastructure serving majority African American communities, America’s “black infrastructure” would receive a failing grade. A key purpose of racial segregation is to allow the
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Algernon Austin

Congress Made the Wrong Choice: Destroying Financial Reform

Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to gut financial reform.
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Amy Traub

Amid An Assault On Voting Rights, Here’s Where Advocates See Some Hope

Kathy Culliton-Gonzalez, a lawyer who works on automatic voter registration at Demos, a progressive think tank, said some of the momentum toward automatic voter registration was born out of the controversy surrounding the results of the 2000 election, long lines to vote across the country in the
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Sam Levine

This city is helping its employees pay off their student loans

Employers’ growing interest in helping workers pay back their student loans “reflects that many, if not most, workers entering the workforce have to contend with their student loans,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. [...]
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Jill Berman

5 Takeaways From Comey Testimony

It’s easy to lose sight of what’s at the heart of this investigation.
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Adam Lioz

Statement by Demos on the Financial Choice Act

New York, NY - With the House of Representatives poised to vote on H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act, Amy Traub, Associate Director, Policy and Research at Demos, issued the following statement:
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Statement by Demos on Testimony of Former FBI Director James Comey

New York, NY - Following today’s testimony by Former FBI Director James Comey on his interactions with President Trump, Heather McGhee, President of the New York-based public policy think tank Demos, issued the following statement:
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Independent Commission Needed to Probe Trump’s Russia Ties

For the past few weeks, keeping up with the latest developments in the head-spinning Trump-Russia scandal has been a full-time job.
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Adam Lioz

A Nation of Bullies

We are not paying close enough attention to this poisonous phenomenon, which is upending longstanding norms and changing the very nature of our society.
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Bob Herbert