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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

Don't Like High-Speed Trading? Tax It

Here's one explanation for a yo-yoing stock market that leaves millions of 401(k) holders biting their nails on a regular basis: The cost for an investor to buy and then sell a stock has fallen by half in the past decade, to 3.5 cents, as the New York Times notes today. With costs this low, old
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David Callahan

Paying Off Student Debt With Social Security

Social Security turned 77 today. Unfortunately, it's not a happy day for the historic program: new data compiled by the U.S. Treasury Department for Smart Money reports:
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Anna Pycior

Gary Gensler: Unlikely Hero

Cynics on the left and anti-government ideologues on the right often pound on legislators and bureaucrats for being ineffectual, biased and generally useless. But every so often a real hero emerges that refutes the dangerous and widespread belief that government does not work.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Walmart Shut Out of Willets Point Development

A group responsible for development of the Willets Point space next to Citi Field said Walmart wouldn’t be a part of its conception. Late last week, the Daily News reported that Walmart quietly lobbied city officials to include them in the development of the area near Citi Field that currently
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Stephon Johnson

When Markets Misfire: Carbon Credits and the Case of HFC-23

One of the strongest arguments against implementing a cap-and-trade scheme is that it is difficult to structure a program in a way that will meaningfully decrease greenhouse gas emissions due to pushback from entrenched interests. For instance, greenhouse gase emitters want the cap on gas emissions
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J. Mijin Cha

CFPB Takes Aim at Mortgage Servicers. It's About Time

One of the most shocking aspects of the foreclosure mess has been the rogue behavior of mortgage servicers. In case you're new to this sorry story, mortgage servicers are the middlemen who handle, well, the servicing of mortgages once money has been lent to a homeowner by a bank. In effect, banks
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David Callahan

More Productive, Less Prosperous

American workers continue to give more and get less in our tepid recovery. The Labor Department released its second quarter productivity report yesterday showing workers contributing more hours and effort, even as their wages have stagnated and overall employment (and underemployment) stalled. The
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Joseph Hines

Smart Machines, Dispensable Workers: A Jobless Future?

Think of technology replacing workers and what comes to mind are low-skilled workers who are bumped aside by relatively simple machines: Subway clerks replaced by Metrocard machines, toll workers rendered obsolete by E-Zpass, banker tellers replaced by ATMs, assembly line workers replaced by robots
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David Callahan

July Was the Hottest Month Ever. Does Congress Care?

At the beginning of July, we noted that even though just a few days had passed in the month, thousands of heat records had been matched or surpassed.
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J. Mijin Cha

Fed Chief Looks Beyond GDP to Happiness Measures

On Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a new jolt of momentum to the growing push for new measures of progress going “beyond GDP.” In prepared remarks for the 32nd general conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), held this week in
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Lew Daly