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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

Demand More from Walmart

For several years, Walmart has placed or tied for last among department and discount stores in the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The situation for the workers is even less satisfying. Hundreds went on strike on Black Friday last fall. With the backing of the United Food and Commercial
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Dave Anderson

Small Donors are Actually Part of the Solution, Not the Problem.

In his column today, Ezra Klein makes a very strange, and untrue, assertion. In talking about campaign finance reform, Klein claims that small donors are as problematic as big money. Klein writes:
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J. Mijin Cha

Union to Banks: Pay Up

The banks have systematically figured out how to rip off the government,” Lerner says. Part of that ripoff was the LIBOR scandal, which had a “massive consequence on everything,” according to Wallace Turbeville, a former Goldman Sachs employee and current senior fellow at nonpartisan think tank
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Sarah Jaffe

A Stilleto in the Back of Financial Reform

On Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee voted out six bills that would make changes to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that could have far-reaching consequences. The bank lobbyists deserve a bonus this year.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Why the Health Law Won't Lead to an Explosion of Part-Time Workers

Critics of the Affordable Care Act have long been calling it a job killer. First, they claimed, companies would cut jobs altogether because of the mandate that all full-time employees must have health coverage.
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Ilana Novick

Rally, Report Urge Higher Wages for Service Workers in Federal Facilities

Even with a freeze on basic pay rates and unpaid leave days and repeated attacks on the federal workforce, being a federal employee means you have a good, though as of late, a less-lucrative job. That can’t be said by everyone in the federal workplace.
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Joe Davidson

Pennsylvania's Misguided Assets Test for SNAP

If Congress doesn't succeeed in gutting SNAP benefits through the Farm Bill, which now proposes sweeping cuts to food stamps, it seems various state legislatures will do whatever they can to get that job done. A few weeks ago, I wrote about North Carolina's proposed background checks for SNAP
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Ilana Novick

Heritage Study's Co-Author Thinks Hispanics Have Lower IQs than Whites

Here’s one reason why Heritage’s immigration study came out the way it did: one of the co-authors of the study thinks that Hispanics have lower IQs than White Americans.
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J. Mijin Cha

Obama Pressed to Do More On Jobs, Stagnant Wages

The average unemployment rate in the first quarter of this year was 7.7 percent. But for African-American workers that rate was 13.6 percent. For Latinos, it was 9.5 percent. And among those who do have jobs, wages are not rising.
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Jim Kuhnhenn

Taxpayers Indirectly Employing More Low-Wage Workers Than Walmart And McDonald's Combined

Lucila Ramirez, 55, has been cleaning the bathrooms and tables at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station for 21 years. Despite her long record of service, Ramirez says she makes only $8.75 per hour, and receives no benefits or sick days. “I work in a federal building doing work on behalf of the government
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Jillian Berman