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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

Extreme Weather Events May Shape the 21st Century, as Wars Shaped the Last Century

Veterans Day has long been a moment to reflect on how deeply the successive wars of the 20th Century reshaped America and the world. But judging by what just happened in the Philippines, cataclysmic weather events may turn out be the big shape of the 21st Century.
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David Callahan

Extreme Weather Events May Shape the 21st Century, as Wars Shaped the Last Century

Veterans Day has long been a moment to reflect on how successive wars of the 20th Century reshaped America and the world. But judging by what just happened in the Philippines, we could well be living in a century where cataclysmic weather events play that history altering role.
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David Callahan

Beyond a Narrow View of Public Goods

We need a new, positive definition of public goods to counter the current market-myopic economics definition that relegates pubic goods to market failure
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June Sekera

Student Debt Is Crushing the Economic Future of the Young

If a bad job market wasn’t damaging enough, the cost of paying off student loans does much more harm to the long-term prospects of young people than is commonly realized.
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Yves Smith
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How the GI Bill Left Out African Americans

Black veterans weren't able to make use of the housing provisions of the GI Bill because banks generally wouldn't make loans for mortgages in Black neighborhoods, and African-Americans were excluded from the suburbs by a combination of deed covenants and informal racism.
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David Callahan

Twitter Wealth in a Walmart Economy

The events of yesterday nicely summed up American economic life: a tiny sliver of people, mostly tech and finance insiders, got fabulously wealthy from Twitter's IPO while 64 people were arrested protesting the poverty wages paid by the largest U.S. employer, Walmart.
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David Callahan

Big Money at the Ballot

Since Citizens United unleashed a flood of corporate money into federal election campaigns, the public has been justifiably outraged at the ability of large economic institutions to wield undue political power.
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Adam Lioz

Why Educated Elites Don't Get the Low-Wage Economy

Here's a question for every reader of this post who lives in a major metro area and has at least a college degree: How many people do you know who make under $40,000 a year? Exclude that artist friend who's husband is in finance. And eliminate younger people still paying their dues. I'm talking
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David Callahan

How New Wedge Issues Are Dividing the Right

Who could have imagined, say ten years ago, that gay rights would one day be an issue that progressives could embrace to their political advantage, dividing the conservative world? For decades, of course, hot button social issues were used in the exact opposite way: to divide the Democratic
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David Callahan

The Story of Recent Elections: Spend, Spend, Spend...

The story of this past election, and really the past several elections, is one of how much money floods our electoral system. The 2012, post- Citizen’s United election was the most expensive election in history and even though 2013 was an off-year election cycle, there was no shortage of spending.
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J. Mijin Cha