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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

Three Charts That Show How Outside Spending Is Dominating NYC Council Races

Here’s another example of how money corrupts the electoral system: a pro-business special interest group has spent almost $7 million on New York City Council races.
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J. Mijin Cha

Why a Minimum-Wage Hike Would Help Wal-Mart

Paying workers more would lead to lower profits and layoffs for America's biggest corporations, right? Not necessarily. Critics of a minimum wage hike cite a commonly held belief that forcing low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart to boost compensation would lead to greater economic suffering. Higher
In the media
Aimee Pichee

When Easy Credit Replaces Wage Increases, Prosperity is Fragile and America's Middle Class Suffers

The American middle class has been in trouble for decades, but this was not obvious until the recession of 2008 because consumer purchases held up. How was that possible? The simple answer is that financiers devised ways to loan money that severed the link between profits and middle-class wellbeing.
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Kevin T. Leicht

The Most Bogus Unemployment Number: Discouraged Workers

It's no secret that the employment data released monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is basically a joke because BLS wildly undercounts the number of people who have given up looking for work or otherwise faded from the full-time labor force.
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David Callahan

How the Decline of American Unions Has Boosted Corporate Profits and Reduced Worker Compensation

Most research on rising economic inequality focuses on growing wage gaps between different groups of workers. But of course that is only part of the story. Just as important is the division of the national economic pie between profits going to capitalists and the “labor share” that includes all of
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Tali Kristal

Just Four Members of the Walton Family Have a Higher Net Worth Than All Walmart's Workers Combined

We famously live an age of capital, where those who own businesses or other assets are prospering, while most people who rely on the value of their labor are doing terribly.
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David Callahan

The Census Proves Conservative Tropes About Low-Income Excess Wrong

Are people better off than they were before the recession?
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Joseph Hines

Why Taxpayers Should Support the Protests for Higher Wages at Walmart

Walmart employees and their supporters have planned national protests today to demand an increase of their wages. Here is why the average American should support the workers’ demands.
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Pamela Cataldo

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