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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

Gravel to Wyden and Udall on NSA: Do What I Did Forty Years Ago

In 1971, Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel assisted Daniel Ellsberg by including the Pentagon Papers in the public record, putting himself at risk of indictment. In the subsequent case Gravel_v._United_States, the Supreme Court held that Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution protected the senator from
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Thomas Hedges

Rhode Island’s Small Victory

When Governor Lincoln Chaffee signed the Temporary Care Giver’s Insurance law last week, Rhode Island became the third state—along with California and New Jersey—to grant paid time off to care for a sick loved one or a new baby. Rhode Island’s law, which goes into effect in 2014, will not only
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Sharon Lerner

Freedom From 9-to-5: Obamacare a Boon to Entrepreneurs

The most often repeated attack on the Affordable Care Act is that the law is a "job killer" -- an anti-business spool of red tape that will strangle free enterprise from coast to coast. In fact, though, one of the biggest obstacles that entrepreneurs face when starting a new business is affording
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David Callahan

A Cheating Culture Persists on Wall Street: New Survey

If you think Wall Street has cleaned up its act after a global financial disaster and then sweeping reform legislation, think again. A new survey by Labaton Sucharow, a law firm that represents Wall Street whistleblowers, has revealed that the financial services industry still has profound ethical
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David Callahan

McDonald’s Accidentally Reveals That It's Impossible To Survive With a McJob

Well, that’s embarrassing. McDonald’s sample budget for its employees lays bare the reality of trying to make it on a food service job at $7.72 an hour (mildly above the federal minimum wage of $7.25).
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Joseph Hines

SNAP Attack

We knew Congress was going to slash SNAP benefits in the latest, House version of the farm bill -- despite any number of compromise suggestions (largely misguided) to increase work requirements, impose new asset tests, and so on. Instead of debating such compromises, however, the House decided it
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Ilana Novick

Richard Cohen Perfectly Embodies How Far We are from "Post-Racial"

Among all that has been written since the Trayvon Martin verdict, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen may take the cake for his ability to combine factual errors with ridiculous hyperbole. Cohen opens his op-ed by saying:
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J. Mijin Cha

Shortchanging Preventive Healthcare

Despite all the coverage of battles over the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, one question has barely been asked: how will the expansion affect current Medicaid recipients? Will they have receive the same benefits, particularly access to preventive services and screenings that can mean the
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Ilana Novick

CFPB vs. Debt Collectors

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued several try-at-home remedies to aid in the struggle against unruly debt collection firms. In a blog post, they introduced:
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Jack Grauer

Why Walmart Should Defend Food Stamps

It is easy to see how the House of Representatives could pass a farm bill jammed with goodies for agribusiness while leaving food stamps out of the equation. The wealthy have powerful friends in Washington while the poor do not. What is less understandable is why some of the biggest beneficiaries of
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David Callahan