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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

The London Whale, the FBI and Math

The FBI is reported to be looking into phone calls and theactions of four employees in its investigation into events surrounding the infamous “London Whale” trades that lost JP Morgan Chase upwards of $6 billion earlier this year. It has also been reported that the SEC is on the case.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Want to Create 2 Million Jobs? Invest in Water Infrastructure

As we celebrate the anniversary of the Clean Water Act, we should also focus on how to increase the number of waterways that are clean enough for fishing or swimming. As we wrote earlier this week, the CWA doesn’t cover nonpoint sources of pollution, which is caused by rain or snowmelt runoff that
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J. Mijin Cha

New York Students Slam Credit Checks

The students assembled outside Borough of Manhattan Community College yesterday morning were indignant.
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Amy Traub

What Happens If the Culture War Disappears?

It's hard to know what audience members will ask the candidates in tonight's debate, but here's a prediction: Issues like gay marriage, abortion, crime, and affirmative action will barely come up, if at all.
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David Callahan

Ms. Crowley, Ask The Candidates About Child Poverty

If I had one question to insert into tonight’s presidential debate, I would ask the candidates what they propose to do about child poverty.
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Michael Lipsky

BREAKING: Supreme Court Won't Block Early Voting In Ohio

In a single sentence order the Supreme Court today rebuffed a plea by Ohio state officials to close early voting in the final three days before the election. This is a big win for democracy in Ohio. Like we've seen around the country, it's been the courts, and for the first time the Supreme Court
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Alex Amend

Morgan Stanley and the Costs of Predatory Lending

The Pew Research Center issued a deeply troubling study last year which found that black and hispanic households had suffered a much bigger decline in their net worth as a result of the Great Recession than white households. The net worth of hispanics went down by 66 percent between 2005 and 2009
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David Callahan

40 Years Later, Clean Water Act Still Working

This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). In 1972, Congress overhauled the Federal Water Pollution Act and provided the basic structure for regulating the discharge of pollutants from point sources. The CWA gave the EPA the authority to set effluent limits on an industry
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J. Mijin Cha

Shortchanging Cities

As a politician who cut his teeth on the South Side of Chicago, Barack Obama was positioned to become the first urban president in decades, even since Teddy Roosevelt. His stimulus plan promised billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, including public transportation and multi-family housing
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Ilana Novick

Alternative Metrics Show We Need More than Growth for Progress

The 4 th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Power begins tomorrow in New Delhi, India and will bring together roughly 1,000 participants to talk about alternative metrics beyond GDP. The theme of this year’s conference is, “ Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making.” The
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J. Mijin Cha