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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

Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back

After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s one of the most important economic stories of our time.
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Joshua Holland

Can Labor Beat Capital? Ask Hosni Mubarak

It's hard to believe in the power of organized labor if you've grown up over the past thirty years, a period of steady union decline. Conventional wisdom hold that the new service economy is inherently hostile terrain for labor organizers and, more broadly, that Americans just aren't the joiners
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David Callahan

Actually Enforcing the Law Would Reduce Segregation

The deep racial segregation of America's schools is such a difficult challenge because it is so driven by economics: Many families of color simply can't afford to live in white or mixed neighborhoods. Zoning rules also play a big role, with white communities often making it difficult to contruct
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David Callahan

Art Pope Perfectly Embodies the Toxic Nature of Money in Politics

If there’s one thing you can say about Art Pope, North Carolina’s mega-donor, it’s that he is a man on a mission. Unfortunately, his mission is to use his wealth to make voting more difficult and restrictive and continue the outsized role money plays in politics.
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J. Mijin Cha

Obama Meets with Independent Regulators, Pressing Wall Street Reform

President Obama met with the nation’s top financial regulators last week, to urge for rulings associated with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform law passed more than three years ago. It was the first time the president convened a sit down with each regulator since 2011. According to a White House
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Eric Orega

Clarion Call Rings Throughout Nation: 'Low Pay Is Not OK'

Fast food workers in over 50 cities across the nation are striking on Thursday in what organizers are touting as the largest ever strike to hit the industry. The workers are demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize, continuing the calls and momentum of a series of strikes that first started
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Andrea Germanos

The Challenge of Segregation

U.S. society seems to have given up on school desegregation -- which has been intensifying.
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David Callahan

Retail's Weak Case for Business as Usual

If I were a top executive in the retail or restaurant industries, or one of their hired guns in Washington, I'd be very nervous right now. Tomorrow will see what may be the first-ever national strike against restaurant and retail chains, with workers expected to walk off the jobs in 35 cities --
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David Callahan

Dr. King's Dream of a Better System

As we celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs today, it is remarkable to note how the challenges faced by activists 50 years ago are so similar to those we face today. But instead of being deflated by this reality, and progress has been made for sure, this
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J. Mijin Cha

Demos President Miles Rapoport on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs

" Not only the absence of oppression but the presence of opportunity" In his speech at the Lincoln Memorial the President movingly honored the sacrifice and commitment of the people who marched on Washington fifty years ago today. He was emphatic in noting that the progress has been immense, an
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