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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

New Demos/NAACP Report Reveals How Retail Industry Perpetuates Racial Inequality

Black and Latino Retail Workers Are More Likely to be Underemployed and Underpaid “The striking persistence of racial inequities in employment is present in the retail industry and beyond, but these norms do not have to continue.”
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Retail Industry Fosters Racial Income Inequality: Naacp, Demos Study

The NAACP and Demos, a public policy organization, have partnered to produce a new paper, “ The Retail Race Divide: How the Retail Industry is Perpetuating Racial Inequality in the 21st Century” that finds a disproportionate number of Black and Latino workers in the retail industry live below the
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Tonya Garcia

Home Ownership: Key to Bridging Wealth Gap

It's no secret the wealth gap between African American and White households is widening. However, the estimated median wealth between the two groups would jump a whopping 450 percent if African Americans owned homes at the same rates as Whites, according to a study released earlier this year by a
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Glenn Townes

Vermont to Launch Same-Day Voter Registration

Vermont will allow voters to cast ballots the same day they register to vote, effective January 2017. It used to be that voters would need to register close to a week before casting a ballot, but that’s changing.
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Jack Thurston

One Chart Shows the Depressingly Racist Truth About Voter ID Laws You Tried to Ignore

Republicans claim voter ID laws aren't racist, but numbers don't lie. Sean McElwee, a researcher for progressive think tank Demos, compared measures of racist sentiments among white people in each of the 50 states (such as whether they believe blacks are trustworthy or intelligent) to dataon voting
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Tom McKay

Vermont’s Same-Day Registration Bill is a Key Step to Fixing Our Electoral System

Demos Vice President of Policy & Outreach Lenore Palladino issued the following statement on Vermont’s passage of Same-Day Registration: "Demos applauds Vermont’s passage of Same-Day Registration (SDR), which will allow residents to register to vote and then cast a regular ballot in a one-stop
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North Carolina in Violation of "Motor Voter" Law

Voting Rights Groups Call on State to Fix Voter Registration at DMVs, or Face Litigation
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Vermont Enacts Same-Day Registration

Officially count Vermont as the latest state to usher in Same-Day Registration.
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Damon L. Daniels

7 Ways Student Debt Can Ruin Your Life

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Zeeshan Aleem

Democrats Look to Make Debt-Free College the Key Campaign Issue of 2016

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Jana Kasperkevic