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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

For Black Men, A Permanent Recession

Six years after America sank into the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s, the jobless rate has fallen to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. But one demographic group — African-American men — seems to be stuck in a permanent recession.
In the media
Reniqua Allen

Here’s How Every College Student Can Graduate Debt-Free

For decades, free high-school education helped strengthen the middle class and generate prosperity. So isn’t it time to extend the same thinking to college?
In the media
Rick Newman

How the Politics of Immigration is Driving Mass Deportation

Deportations reached another record high last year. This is a striking development in light of the fact that illegal immigration and Border Patrol apprehensions have been falling for over a decade, and when — despite intransigence among some House Republicans — for several years there has been broad
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Ian Haney López

New York City Kids Still Have Trouble Finding Work

Despite Friday’s unemployment rate dropping to 5.9 percent nationally, New York City is still home to the dead-end kids. Half of the city’s 600,000 recent college graduates are either underemployed or out of work, according to New York Fed researchers. Most of this 50 percent are working in jobs
In the media
John Aidan Byrne

Maryland's Montgomery County Just Enacted Public Financing

On Tuesday, Montgomery County Council unanimously enacted a public financing bill that will both encourage participation from small donors in the county and allow civic-minded individuals to run for county office without needing big contributions. Starting in 2015, the county will match small
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Seth Endo

Germany Just Eliminated Tuition. It Wouldn’t Be That Hard for Us to Do the Same—And Then Some

Public colleges and universities took in $62 billion in tuition in 2013. These are schools that educate three of four American college students, and eliminating that entirely could be done just by rearranging what we already spend on student financial aid.
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Mark Huelsman

Regulatory Capture of the New York Fed: How Can Banks Capture What They Already Own?

This American Life’s broadcast of recordings made by a former New York Fed employee has generated a wave of interest in the issue of regulatory capture of the Fed, a sort of “Stockholm Syndrome” that affects regulators who identify with the businesses that they regulate, in this case the big banks
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Wallace C. Turbeville

The Middle-Class Litmus Test for the Economy

When people like me write about the middle class, it has nothing to do with envy or class warfare—two shopworn epithets that should be retired from the political lexicon. The condition of the middle class—its size, income and self-confidence—reveals the extent to which economic growth increases
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William Galston

The World Is a Pretty Fair Place, According to Rich People

How bad a problem is inequality? Are working-class people getting screwed? Should we raise taxes on the rich? Is the United States, in short, a fundamentally unfair place? These are the questions that keep awake policy analysts and fuel endless dinner-party debates. But there's one group that is not
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Jesse Singal

Wal-Mart’s New Scheme to Prey on America’s Poor

The FDIC estimates there are 10 million people living in the U.S. who do not have a bank account — that’s one out of every 13 households. Nearly 33 percent of people living in Starr County, TX can’t write a check. In one census district in Savannah, GA, over 42 percent of residents are unbanked. The
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Lynn Stuart Parramore