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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
Black mother and daughter looking at the city river

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

Are 401(k) Plans Defective or a Great Hope?

Employer-sponsored plans such as 401(k)s are workers' best hope for a secure retirement. Critics of the 401(k) system contend that the plans weren't designed to be the foundation of a secure retirement and should be scrapped in favor of something tailor-made, while supporters of the system say it
In the media
Sheyna Steiner

A Professor Puts the Scare in Plan Sponsors

Ian Ayres of Yale University has the 401(k) marketplace fuming.
In the media
John Rekenthaler

Statement on President Obama’s Remarks, Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman Trial from Demos President Miles Rapoport

At Demos, we are working for an America where we all have an equal say and an equal chance. The slaying of Trayvon Martin has reminded us that we have not yet achieved an America where we all have equal chance to merely live. Trayvon Martin was denied that chance because his identity was one that
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On President Obama's Remarks, Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman Trial

At Demos, we are working for an America where we all have an equal say and an equal chance. The slaying of Trayvon Martin has reminded us that we have not yet achieved an America where we all have equal chance to merely live. Trayvon Martin was denied that chance because his identity was one that
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Miles Rapoport

The Mandate That Matters: Individual, Not Employer

Thirty seven. That's how many attempts House Republicans have made to strike down the Affordable Care Act. Most of the attempts gave been focused on dismantling the law as a whole, and while the current version is not as robust as Obama's original proposals, the law has survived extensive attacks.
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Ilana Novick

Barely Legal Things Employers Do To Keep Unemployed Applicants Out

Employers don't want to look at the resumes of unemployed people. In fact, they don't even want those resumes sent to them. Some employers will actually do whatever it takes — without doing anything illegal — to prevent the unemployed from applying for positions at their company.
In the media
Vivian Giang

JP Morgan and Barclays' Electricity Market Rip-Off

How financial market practices not only risk catastrophic systemic failure like 2008, they constitute a massive extraction of value from the real economy by the financial sector.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Closing Offshore Tax Loopholes with Unitary Taxation

Over the past decade or two, top transnational corporations -- including Apple, GE, and Google -- have figured out how to sidestep national tax collection systems, depriving governments of billions of dollars in revenues.
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David Callahan

Exchanges Counter Snafus in Securities Trading

Financial markets, now heavily dependent on technology, need to be safeguarded against cyberattacks, natural disasters and the more prosaic scourge of human error that can cause massive disruptions, according to experts and a federal panel.
In the media
Tamara Lytle

Increasing Poverty Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Danger of "Positive Stereotyping"

Among immigrant groups, Asian American/Pacific Islander communities are often stereotyped as a “model minority,” and an immigration economic success story. However, this stereotype masks the wide diversity -- ethnic and economic -- that exists within the Asian and Asian-American communities.
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J. Mijin Cha