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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

Massive Credit Card Debt Threatens the African American Middle Class

Middle-class Blacks are using credit to help cover their basic living expenses, according to a report from the NAACP and public policy research organization Demos. In the recession’s aftermath, 79 percent of middle-class African-American households carry credit card debt.
In the media
Jazelle Hunt

How Obama Can Kick Off the Minimum-Wage Push

The New York Times reported this morning (echoing the reporting of Greg Sargent and others earlier this year) that Democrats plan to campaign on raising the minimum wage during the election season. Aside from being good economic policy, raising the minimum wage is quite popular,
In the media
George Zornick

The Killer "Moral Values" Issue in 2014? Work

Once upon a time, conservatives were famously good at what George Lakoff called "moral politics." They won over Americans with simple -- often simplistic -- value propositions. Progressives, meanwhile, often struggled with this dimension of politics, gravitating more toward consumerist appeals about
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David Callahan

Is the Creative Class an Enemy of Urban Equity?

If affluent people decide that cities are great places to live, how do we stop lower and middle income people from being priced out? That's a tough and complex problem, but not one that Alec MacGillis seriously addresses in his gratuitously snarky attack on Richard Florida in the New Republic.
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David Callahan

Dog Whistle Politics: Ian Haney López at TEDxUOregon

Race. Racism. Politics. Critical race theory. Demos Senior Fellow and Constitutional law.
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Is Vermont a Model for Anything?

My newest article at The Atlantic examines Vermont’s push for universal healthcare. Rather than reform the individual market and leave the employer-based healthcare system largely intact, Vermont is working towards a Medicare-for-all system. All Vermont citizens will be enrolled in Green Mountain
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Sean McElwee

2013: The Year America Went Back to College

This year the mainstream media seriously interrogated higher education as a complex ecosystem.
In the media
Tressie McMillan Cottom

As Evangelicalism Declines, Is the GOP Toast?

From the late 1970s through the early 2000s, evangelical Christians were among the most zealous foot soldiers of the New Right. They pushed the Republican Party to a more extreme conservatism and provided the electoral muscle to win key elections. Their power reached new heights in the 1990s, and
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David Callahan

The Carbon Bubble and the Limits of GDP

Lew Daly and I have a new piece at Salon about the carbon bubble. We argue that current valuations of companies mask an unsustainable future.
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Sean McElwee

Are Progressives Okay With Big Government?

That seems like an odd question to ask, since a central goal of progressive politics is to revive government as a powerful agent for improving American life -- expanding protections for workers, the poor, consumers, investors, and the environment. Amen to all that.
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David Callahan