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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
Black mother and daughter looking at the city river

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

African-Americans still shortchanged in mortgage market

Demos, a public policy organization, published a report that demonstrated if the rate of homeownership by people of color would increase, the racial wealth gap would substantially reduce the racial wealth gap. “Black and Latino homeowners saw less return in wealth on their investment in
In the media
Charlene Crowell

Rising Rental Costs Can Jeopardize Boomers' Retirement

But, rising rents may shift that balance—making widows or single senior women particularly susceptible to market trends. And, as one Federal Reserve Bank of Boston report notes, 84% of single senior households—mostly senior women—are financially vulnerable. That figure is derived from the Senior
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William Richards

The Pope is Right to Link Capitalism and Sustainability

This morning’s routine was going well — make coffee, pour juice, cut fruit, listen to NPR. The reporter was interviewing a former ambassador to the Vatican who was saying that the Pope’s views on climate could establish a new moral grounding for US public opinion, if only he would back off on the
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Wallace C. Turbeville

One Big Reason Congress Ignores the Poor: They Don't Vote

Not that many people vote in midterm elections. While 57.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2012 presidential race, a mere 41.9 percent did in 2014, according to data from the Census Bureau. Midterm turnout isn’t just low, though. It’s falling. It tumbled from 47.8 percent in 2006 to
In the media
Sean McElwee

Black America's Mortgage Dilemma

Among mortgage professionals, it is widely held that owning a home is how many Americans build wealth. As the private mortgage market has failed to make loans available to Black homebuyers, our community suffers from a limited ability to create wealth through this reliable and proven method.
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Charlene Crowell

Memo to Hillary Clinton: Here's How We Really Fix American Capitalism

I propose a far-reaching agenda to fix Quarterly Capitalism, equal to the task of shifting traderscorporate America away from an obsession with short-termism and toward creating shared productivity. These proposals are complementary and non-exclusive, but the problem of Quarterly Capitalism and
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Wallace C. Turbeville

From Abu Ghraib to Black Lives Matter: Meet the NYPD's Most Notorious Anti-activist Cop

"Police cannot lawfully target protestors based on the content of their speech and cause protesters to abandon the protest."
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Adam Johnson
Keegan Stephan

Why Hillary's Plan to Fix the Economy Won't Get the Job Done

But praise for Clinton fades to disappointment because her solution to quarterly capitalism, an adjustment to capital gains tax rates, holds little promise of getting the job done. What’s needed are new restrictions on Wall Street and changes to how corporations do business, territory occupied so
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Wallace C. Turbeville

U.S. Government is Nation's Largest Low-Wage Employer

“There is no justice in America when the largest low-wage employer is not McDonald’s, it is not Burger King, it is not Walmart.
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Claire Zillman

How Voter Registration Could Give Us Debt-Free College

Today is National Voter Registration Day, and it’s clearer than ever that we need a democracy revolution in the United States. As the first Presidential election without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act approaches, boosting voter registration and turnout is the best cure for what ails
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Sean McElwee