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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 On Federal-State Partnership To Reduce Student Debt

(New York, New York) — As the country struggles to find remedies for its growing student debt problem, the national public policy organization Demos has released The Affordable College Compact, a new a proposal for a federal-state matching program to alleviate this burden for students and address
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Fewer High School Students Are Working And That Could Drag Down Their Future Wages

Fewer American high school students are working summer jobs and part-time jobs than a decade ago, and that will likely mean lower wage-earning capacity in their futures, research indicates. In 2000, about 34 percent of high school students age 16 and older held jobs, but that share had fallen to 18
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Meagan Clark

Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories?

It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how do you get experience? Get a job. But for many, the unemployment cycle gets further twisted when it intersects with the debt cycle. When prospective employers run credit checks, a bad report
In the media
Michelle Chen

Momentum Builds to Overturn Citizens United

We’re entering high campaign season in what’s shaping up to be the most expensive midterm elections in American history.
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Adam Lioz

Conservative Distortions of the Democracy for All Amendment

For the past two days, the Senate has debated a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would add, in main part, the following text: To advance the fundamental principle of political equality for all, and to protect the integrity of the legislative and electoral process, Congress shall
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Seth Endo

Should Employers Check Your Credit?

A bill that aims to “prohibit discrimination based on one’s consumer credit history” by banning employers from doing credit checks on job applicants will be the subject of a City Council hearing set for 10 a.m. Sept. 12 at City Hall. [...] According to an article by Amy Traub titled “Discredited
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Kaycia Sailsman

President Heather McGhee on the Senate's Vote and Debate on the Democracy for All Resolution

Demos President Heather McGhee issued the following statement on the Senate's actions this week on the Democracy for All resolution: “Demos applauds the Senate for debating and voting this week on the Democracy for All resolution, which would clarify that the People have the power to curb the
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President Heather McGhee on the Democracy for All Resolution

“Demos strongly supports the Democracy for All resolution and calls on all senators to vote to send it to the states for ratification as the Twenty Eighth Amendment.
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Significant Victory in Fight to End “Prison Gerrymandering”: Cranston, RI Lawsuit Will Move Forward

Providence, RI. Local Cranston residents and the ACLU of Rhode Island won a significant victory today in their fight for equal voting power in City elections when Judge Lagueux of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island denied a motion to dismiss their one person, one vote lawsuit
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We Still Don't Know How Much Student Loans are Impacting the Housing Market

It’s hard to make broad causal inferences about student debt and homeownership among recent graduates, because there are simply too many factors in play.
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Mark Huelsman