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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

Researchers Design New Tool to Measure the Impact of Public Policy Choices on the Racial Wealth Gap

(New York, NY) – Though much research has been devoted to how public policy choices such as increasing the minimum wage can address economic disparities, there has been no systematic analysis of the types of public policies that offer the most potential for reducing the racial wealth gap.
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Minimum Wage Boost In Seattle Faces Legal Challenge From Franchise Lobby

Next month, the nation’s biggest minimum wage hike takes effect. But its impact could be dulled if the franchise lobby has its way in court.
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Cole Stangler

Why Finance Is Still a Problem

Warren Buffett warned investors that bankers were still up to their old tricks in his recent investor letter. Vanguard founder Jack Bogle is writing about how high fee mutual funds are ripping off investors and endangering retirement security. And Fed Chair Janet Yellen is touting new, tougher
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Rana Foroohar

On the Bridge with John Lewis and Barack Obama

Fifty years after Bloody Sunday, I marched to the top of the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, Congressman John Lewis, President Barack Obama, and many others.
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These Students Are Taking a Bold Stand and Refusing to Pay Their College Loans

Latonya Suggs is one of 15 former students of Corinthian-owned schools called "the Corinthian 15" who are engaging in what they say is the nation's first student debt strike. They're refusing to pay back both their private and their federal student loans. Strike Debt is helping provide legal support
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Zeeshan Aleem

The Myth Destroying America: Why Social Mobility Is Beyond Ordinary People’s Control

In America, there is a strongly held conviction that with hard work, anyone can make it into the middle class. Pew recently found that Americans are far more likely than people in other countries to believe that work determines success, as opposed to other factors beyond an individual’s control. But
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Sean McElwee

Our Diverse America Deserves a More Representative Democracy

When Congress narrowly missed another government shutdown in December by passing the “cromnibus” bill, much of the press coverage focused on Capitol Hill’s ongoing dysfunction. However, buried inside the bill was yet another blow to campaign finance regulations, dramatically increasing the amount of
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Heather McGhee

Science Proves People Act More Racist Than They Think

Most people want to believe that their place in the world is something they earned, either through hard work, preparation, or both. I understand this sentiment. As a native of a country that reveres Horatio Alger-inspired tales of upward mobility, the idea that our status might be attributed to
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Reniqua Allen

The President’s Task Force on Policing Report Is Good, but It Underemphasizes Racial Bias

There’s a lot going down with policing these days. The flurry of action this week included an interim report from the President’s Task Force on 21 st Century Policing. It bears both good and bad news. One weakness in the report is overarching and unavoidable: the federal government is limited in the
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Jenn Rolnick Borchetta

The Comedy and the Tragedy of Banking Under Dodd-Frank

The talk around Wall Street is that profits at the trading desks of the big banks are down and that regulations are to blame. There may be some truth to that, at least to the extent that transparency rules have deterred some price gouging. We should be careful about reading too much into the effects
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Wallace C. Turbeville