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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

Top Threat of the Future: Energy Crisis or High-Tech Military Foe?

Here is a question you shouldn't have to think on too hard. What is a more likely scenario in the next ten or twenty years: A) the United States economy is dealt a grievous blow by an energy crisis that, say, is brought on by a disruption of oil supplies from the Persian Gulf; or B) the U.S. faces a
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David Callahan

Bob Herbert Calls for Popular Movement on U.S. Jobs Crisis

“It’s a disgrace that this is happening in a country as rich as ours,” former New York Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert said, describing what he called a “massive employment crisis” in the U.S. Herbert, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the economic equality think tank Demos, delivered his lecture
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Jennifer Wilmore

Buying of the President 2012: Meet the Super PAC Mega Donors

The more we learn about Super PACs, the uglier the picture gets.
In the media
Ari Berman

Federal Appeals Court Rules NM Officials Violated National Voter Registration Act

The federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the State of New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) violated Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by improperly withholding voter registration applications from certain public assistance clients.
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Rethinking Growth and Sustainable Development

Ahead of the 20 th UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June, Oxfam has released a discussion paper that presents a model that could help eradicate poverty while at the same time is environmentally sustainable.
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J. Mijin Cha

Goldman Sachs Buys TransUnion. What’s In It For You?

One of the major companies responsible for the nation’s credit meltdown will now control your personal credit history.
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Amy Traub

Growth Does Not Equal Progress

Why GDP is (Increasingly) Obsolete
In the media
Lew Daly

Celebrate President's Day By Not Going Shopping

Here we go again. Another holiday, another sale-explosion/shopping extravaganza. Can we stop and ask ourselves: Is buying more stuff, which we probably do not need and may very well not use, the best way to honor our Presidents?
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J. Mijin Cha

Students In New York, Prepare To Be Bored

School in New York is probably going to get a little more dull. Yesterday the United Federation of Teachers and Governor Cuomo struck a compromise on the issue of teacher evaluations that will probably mean less focus on creative assignments and more on standardized testing.
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Anna Pycior

Who is Representing the Uninsured in the Contraception Debate?

Yesterday’s House oversight committee h earing on contraception was far from productive.
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Caitlyn Duer