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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

Good Grades or No Groceries: Linking Entitlements to School Performance

Here's a new one: Two Republican state legislators in Tennessee are pushing legislation which would penalize parents whose children have less than satisfactory grades by reducing their government assistance up to 30%.
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Michael Jackson

Working Families, Flexibility, and the Eric Cantor of My Dreams

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor really cares about working families. He favors “ common sense legislation to protect workers and make life work for more people” and wants to “ help working parents who are juggling responsibilities at home and on the job.”
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Amy Traub

Chris Murphy: 'Soul-Crushing' Fundraising Is Bad For Congress

Murphy suggested two ways out of this trap. One is crowd-sourced fundraising, which is already occurring over the Internet. Murphy stated that his Senate campaign raised $4 million of its $10 million total from donors giving online. That meant he did not have to call wealthy donors to raise 40
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Politico Morning Tax Quick Click

From The Washington Post, “Federal taxpayers employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart and McDonald’s combined, a new study calculates. The report from the consulting firm Demos, set to be released Wednesday, estimates that taxpayer dollars fund nearly 2 million private-sector jobs that pay $24,000
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Lauren French

It's Cap and Groan Time

The class of ’13 has no luck at all. As the graduates take to the streets with their six-month grace periods before their student loan debt bills begin arriving, they face a horrific job market. “At 16.2 percent, the March 2013 unemployment rate of workers under age 25 was [roughly] twice as high as
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Gregory Bresiger

America's Youth Unemployment Rate Is One Of The Worst Of Wealthy, Large Economies: Report

In the constant race to be the best America is falling behind other large, wealthy nations in at least one major category: Employing the nation’s youth.
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Heritage Foundation's Bogus Immigration Costs

The Heritage Foundation has a new report out looking at the cost of immigration reform. The report puts the cost of immigration reform at a whopping $6.3 trillion. I won’t go into all the reasons they list but let’s say it seems they believe that as soon as undocumented workers become citizens, they
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J. Mijin Cha

There Are No More Corporate Criminals

Panelists at the annual Corporate Crime Reporter Conference in Washington, D.C. Friday said they were concerned that the Justice Department is abandoning full criminal prosecutions of financial industries in favor of Deferred and Non Prosecution Agreements (DPAs and NPAs), which usually involve a
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Thomas Hedges

Young People Gained Ground in April, But Unemployment Is Still High

The good news in the April unemployment numbers delivered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday finally spilled over to people under 25, who saw their unemployment rate drop last month even as their labor force participation rate increased.
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Catherine Ruetschlin

Sequester Relief for the Privileged, Not the Poor

So far, the airline and meat industries have managed to exempt their parent agencies — the USDA and FAA respectively — from following through with furloughs that the across-the-board sequestration cuts require. It’s a victory, they say, for ordinary Americans who, without these exemptions, would be
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Thomas Hedges