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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

Unpaid Internships for Graduates Now the New Norm?

Internships have long been a part of building a career trajectory and most students have resigned themselves to the fact that internships will be unpaid. Many college students spend summers interning at various places, hoping to gain some hands-on experience, a few recommendations and some sense of
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Mehroz Baig

How the CFPB is Spurring Banks to Self-Regulate

The standard rap against regulation is that government uses a meat cleaver to clean up problems in the private sector that are better tackled with more nuance. Yet regulation—or the threat of it—often serves to spur smart self-regulation that wouldn't otherwise occur. You want to see a scalpel at
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David Callahan

Demos Denounces Mayoral Veto of D.C.'s Living Wage Law

NEW YORK, NY – Today Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray caved to the ultimatum issued by Walmart and vetoed a living wage bill that was passed by the D.C. City Council. The bill would have required retailers with corporate sales of $1 billion or more and operating in spaces of 75,000 square feet or
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Blythe Masters, JPMorgan's Credit Derivatives Guru, Is Not Sorry

Blythe Masters is the most recognizable woman on Wall Street—and arguably its most resilient. At 44, she heads the largest commodities trading operation at the largest bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase ( JPM). In the mid-1990s she developed and marketed credit derivatives, which rapidly became a new
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Paul M. Barrett

Five Years After Lehman and the American Public Is Still Outraged

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Joseph Hines

Corruption Watch: Here Comes Citizens United 2.0

Mark October 8 on your calendar – that’s when the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that’s being called Citizens United 2.0 .
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Joshua Holland

After 7-Hour Meeting, It’s On: Richmond Sticks with Its Plan to Seize Mortgages through Eminent Domain

After a marathon hearing that wrapped up in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the City Council of Richmond, Calif., voted to allow the use of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages, becoming the first city in the nation to take such a concrete step toward the novel and risky strategy for
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Lydia DePillis

Will You Work Until You Die, Grandpa?

In an earlier, harsher America it was not uncommon for people to work well into old age. In 1945, about half of Americans 65 and over were still in the labor force. And that was at a time when most work was physical in nature. Then came the great rise in postwar prosperity, with the spread of
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David Callahan

Inequality's Threat to Our Fiscal Future

There are a bunch of good, practical arguments for giving low-wage workers a pay hike -- like the fact that putting more money in the pockets of these workers would spur consumer demand and economic growth. But here's another strong point that you don't hear much about: Reducing wage inequality is
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David Callahan

Shared Fate: Why White Boomers and Kids of Color Depend on Each Other

I've written a lot lately about how this country has given up on school integration and left millions of kids of color concentrated in the nation's worst public schools with few white classmates. One of the groups who should be most worried about this resegregation are white Baby Boomers. Why
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David Callahan