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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

Go Grassley: Senator Fights Excessive Compensation at Universities

The most recent charge in Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) crusade against rising tuition costs was in late February when he criticized then nominee for Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew for the benefits he received from New York University. They totaled $1.4 million over a period of four years.
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Thomas Hedges

Paul Ryan’s Misguided Food Stamp Plan

For fans of conservatives’ favorite teller of “hard truths,” the Path to Prosperity budget proposal released by Rep. Paul Ryan this week must have been a disappointment.
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Brenden Timpe

States and Towns Fill Federal Void on Fracking

Increasingly, states and municipalities are stepping in to fill the federal void on regulating and banning fracking. California has at least eight bills looking to regulate and/or tax fracking operations. Vermont became the first state to ban the practice.
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J. Mijin Cha

Congressional Proposal for a Carbon Tax Open for Comments

We've talked a lot about how a carbon tax is a win-win-win proposal that would raise badly needed revenues, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and shift the cost of pollution onto the producer. It looks like some members of Congress are ready to take this step. Today, Rep. Waxman, Sen. Whitehous, Rep
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J. Mijin Cha

Why Are Republicans Blocking Richard Cordray at the CFPB?

This morning the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Richard Corday to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. On the merits, Cordray should breeze through. The politics, however, are destined to be thornier.
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Amy Traub

Older Americans Carrying More Debt than Younger Generation

Middle-income Americans age 50 and older are now carrying more credit card debt on average than younger people, according to a 2012 study released by Demos. This is a reversal of the findings from the Demos survey which took place in 2008.
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Roy Williams

Putting a Check on Using Credit Reports Against Job Seekers

The economy plummets. You lose your job. Soon, you start to find it hard to make ends meet. You start putting things on your credit card. Then you fall behind in your card payments. All the while you’ve been desperately looking for a new job. Little do you know that being behind on credit card
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Bryce Covert

The Business Case for a Higher Minimum Wage

Proposals to raise the minimum wage are enormously popular with the American public, but there’s a reason they are successful only on occasion. The powerful business lobby is quite effective at getting through to lawmakers with their message that higher wage requirements will lead to less employment
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Brenden Timpe

High Frequency Trading Seeing More Washington Arrows to Dodge

In the latest anti-HFT salvo, a 12-year veteran of Goldman Sachs Monday applied a new definition to the essence of high frequency trading, seeing it as a purposeful distortion of the flow of market information rather than just a successful trading technique. With that he also prescribed a financial
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Denny Gulino

How Sequestration Downsizes Regulation

Sequestration is a heavy blow to regulatory agencies. For the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), among many others, the $85 billion in cuts is the next step in deregulation, which accelerated in the 1990s
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Thomas Hedges