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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

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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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

Profit At Any Cost: How Banks Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists

After years of scandals and abuses, it's hard to be surprised by the criminal behavior of major banks. Typically, though, exposes of bank wrongdoing have focused on their financial shenanigans. But yesterday, thanks to the dogged work of Senate investigators, we learned that the criminality of some
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David Callahan

Exactly Where is the "Safe" Fracking?

At a campaign stop in Ohio yesterday, President Obama said the following:
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J. Mijin Cha

Beginning of the End for ‘Prison-Based Gerrymandering’

The Supreme Court issued a little-noticed decision in a Maryland case that gave the green light to states to eliminate the repugnant practice of “prison-based gerrymandering.”
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Peter Wagner

Revenues and Republicans: Reasons for Hope

True or false: A sizeable slice of congressional Republicans would vote for revenue increases, if packaged the right way.
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David Callahan

How Do We Value Nature?

How to value the economic role that natural resources play and incorporate some of these external costs so that not only are we aware of the impacts, we can begin to start incorporate them into pricing.
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J. Mijin Cha