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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 Report Shows Higher Education’s Debt-Financed System Biased Along Class and Racial Lines

(New York, NY)- During the next few weeks thousands of students across the country will graduate from college, an accomplishment that used to symbolize a step toward financial independence and entry into the middle class.
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How Student Debt Is Perpetuating Racial Inequality

[...] The nation’s yawning wealth gap is a major reason why minority students end up borrowing more for college. Structural racism has created disparities in home ownership rates, income and other wealth-building vehicles, providing minority borrowers with fewer resources to tap to pay for college
In the media
Jillian Berman

The Bias Inside the College Debt System

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson vowed that no student wishing to attend college would "be turned away because his family is poor." Half a century later, a shift in the way college is funded and the declining fortunes of minorities and poor families since the recession have created a college-debt
In the media
Aimee Picchi

7 Charts That Show How Student Loans Are Screwing Minorities

Most students go into debt to pay for college. And while no one wants to be in the red, a new report from left-leaning think tank Demos argues that the increasingly debt-financed higher education system in the United States is especially harmful to low-income, black and Latino kids.
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Emily Deruy
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Five Reasons Why Debt-Free College Helps More than Just the Upper-Middle Class

The most important fact about higher education is that only a minority of people go to college. That fact would change if college was affordable for more people.
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Mark Huelsman

Internships Can Pay Off, but They Sometimes Carry a Heavy Cost

One of the major concerns that surround unpaid internships is access. Wealthier students benefit; poor students don’t.
In the media
Eric Adler
Mara Rose Williams

Racism Is Destroying the Right to Vote

Racism has affected voting in America since its founding, and it continues to affect voting today.
Blog
Sean McElwee

Reports Question NC's Voting Rights Efforts

[...] Demos, the New York-based group, began monitoring North Carolina about a decade ago because it spotted a drop-off in public assistance registrations. Gary Bartlett, the State Board of Elections director at the time, was eager to attract more voters, said Stuart Naifeh, an attorney with Demos.
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Craig Jarvis

NC Must Comply With Voter Registration Law

[...] This is not the first time North Carolina has fallen out of compliance with the NVRA. Dēmos, the New York-based group that has put North Carolina on notice, also monitored the state about 10 years ago after seeing a drop in voter registration applications processed by public assistance
In the media

Bumpy Road for Bill to Ban Credit Checks for Job Applicants

After the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, many pointed at the gap between the black population and their overwhelmingly white elected officials as a symptom of the country’s problem with race.
In the media
Illaria Parogni