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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

Derivatives: Source of the Next LIBOR Scandal

If you are aware of some of the specific derivatives and securities that are traded by banks and other financial services firms, you know that actual transactions in many of them occur infrequently. Prices based on what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller are difficult to come by. Let’s say
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Wealthy Are Sole Winners From Great Recession

If the Great Depression went down in history as the great equalizer (by razing the incomes of the wealthy), the Great Recession may be known for having the opposite effect. According to a new report issued by the Congressional Research Service, the share of wealth owned by the richest 1 percent of
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Rakim Brooks

Is Voter Fraud a Fraud?

For all the talk about the need for voter-identification laws, you’d think millions of Americans were impersonating dead people to get their candidates elected, or casting multiple ballots after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Not even close.
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Eliza Shapiro

High Profits, Low Wages, and the Growth of Inequality

Despite near-record levels of economic inequality, many politicians and pundits still don't think this widening chasm is much of a problem in a country supposedly dedicated to egalitarian ideals. Inequality, the logic goes, is a natural result of different degrees of work and creativity. Some people
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David Callahan

CFPB's First Enforcement Action: A Good News, Bads News Story in Capital One Settlement

Today we got a concrete sense of why, exactly, the banks fought so hard to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Because, among other things, this is an agency that can slap the banks with huge fines and force them to alter their business practices by legal fiat.
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David Callahan

Tell Me About Yourself, TransUnion: Credit Reporting Companies Submit to CFPB Scrutiny

Without your consent, approval, or even awareness, large for-profit credit reporting companies know an awful lot about you. TransUnion, Experian, Equifax and their smaller competitors know the credit limit on your AmEx card, how much you still owe in student loans, and all about that time you made
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Amy Traub

How Do We Value Nature?

One of the big questions environmentalists struggle with is whether there should be a price on nature. For some things, like the cost savings that are realized through cleaner air or water, there is a rote calculation that can be done to price out environmental and health benefits. But, if you think
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Why Did the OCC Ignore HSBC's Criminal Ties?

David Callahan posted a terrific blog yesterday that outlined HSBC’s outrageous behavior as catalogued in a 350-page report by the Senate’s Permanent Committee on Investigations.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Expert Available to Comment on DISCLOSE Act

WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, the DISCLOSE Act which would shine a light on the dark money dominating our democracy was defeated on the Senate floor. Although it received a majority of votes it failed to overcome a filibuster from Senator McConnell.
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Pass the DISCLOSE Act Now

Tonight, critical legislation that would shine a light on the dark money dominating our democracy was defeated on the Senate floor. To be clear, it received a majority of votes, but failed to overcome a filibuster from Senator McConnell.
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Liz Kennedy