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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

Now on Sale at Walmart: Risky Financial Services

The consumer advocates at the Center for Responsible Lending don’t mince words: “ overdraft ‘protection’ is a racket; not a service.” CRL explains: Transaction shuffling and multiple, exorbitant fees for small shortfalls in their checking accounts cost Americans billions per year in unfair fees
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Amy Traub

Who's Tackling One of the Knottiest Challenges Facing U.S. Workers?

I've written a few times in recent months about the breakdown of traditional employment relationships. Organizations of all kinds—mainly in the private sector, but also universities and other nonprofits—have grown super savvy about outsourcing any number of functions they used to do in-house to
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David Callahan

When It's Freedom vs. Fairness, Which Wins in America?

A central goal of progressive strategy should be to ensure that freedom and fairness are not pitted against each other.
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David Callahan

Mothering Between a Rock and Prison

This Mother's Day, Shanesha Taylor, a 25-year old homeless and unemployed mother, will be fighting for her freedom and to keep her family together just for the simple crime: trying to feed her children. Without childcare or family support, Shanesha left her children, ages two and six-months, in a
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Zachary Norris

No, People Don’t Get Buried In Credit Card Debt Because They’re Bad With Money

You may think that if you spend wisely you’ll be able to avoid huge amounts of credit card debt. But those who have this debt not only spend more frugally than those without it, they actually got into the debt in the first place because of hardships out of their control, not due to unwise budgeting
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Bryce Covert

State Motor Vehicle Departments Don’t Measure Up on Voter Registration

20 years after Motor Voter went into effect, there are a few bright spots, but most state motor vehicle departments are falling down on the job.
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Stuart Naifeh

How an Egregious Tax Loophole Could Save This Billionaire $700 Million Next April

David Tepper topped the list of best paid hedge managers for last year, pulling in $3.5 billion. That's an astonishing amount of money for one person to make in a single year -- and is larger than the annual GDP of 35 countries.
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David Callahan

The Rise of Rentier Capitalism

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, East Egg represents inherited wealth and privilege, while West Egg represents wealth earned through innovation and hard work, a distinction at the core of the American ideal. We have always embraced a dynamic capitalism, marked not by stasis but rather
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Sean McElwee
Wallace C. Turbeville

Coming Next Thursday: A New Global Labor Movement?

Globalization has kept labor unions on the defensive for nearly forty years now. While workers are pretty much stuck where they live, corporations are able to move production around to find the lowest wages. But labor has gotten better over the years at exploiting a globalized world for its own aims
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David Callahan

The President Should Make Walmart Part of the Minimum Wage Debate

“No family should work full time and live in poverty.”
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Joseph Hines