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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

Is 40 Weeks the Ideal Maternity Leave Length?

How long do working mothers stay home after having their first child? If you guessed the answer might be 12 weeks (not an unreasonable assumption, since that’s the amount of time allotted by our national family leave law), you’d be sadly mistaken. According to recently released census numbers, a
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Sharon Lerner

Consumption Junction: How Much Should We Spend?

We are at a crossroads: do we choose economic growth or environmental sustainability?
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J. Mijin Cha

The Patriotic Grinch Says: Save More, Spend Less

Not two weeks after September 11, 2001, when the stock market was still all over the map and plans for and unfunded war in the offing, President Bush famously told Americans to "[d]o your business around the country" and
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Elon Green

‘Tis the Season… to Stop Buying Crap

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J. Mijin Cha

Protecting Elections from Political Manipulation

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Foreign Corporate Profits Are Not "Trapped" Abroad

Multinational corporations have pushing hard over the last year for a repatriation tax holiday that would allow them to bring foreign profits back to the U.S. at a very low tax rate. They argue that such a giveaway would be a boon to the economy because those accrued profits -- over $1 trillion --
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David Callahan

Iraq: Geopolitical Folly in a Geoeconomic Age

It's finally over. Today marks the formal end of the nine-year U.S. military intervention in Iraq, although of course we are far from fully disentangled there with two military bases remaining on Iraq soil and 4,000 troops.
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David Callahan

How Inequality Hurts the Economy

Recommended Reading: Bloomberg Businessweek's " How Inequality Hurts the Economy" by David J. Lynch. People have been making this argument for a while now -- inequality hurts growth because channeling wealth to the few simultaneously concentrates risk -- but Lynch's piece overwhelms because it lays
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Rakim Brooks

Taxes and the Future of OWS

Chalk one up for Occupy Wall Street. Last Thursday, the New York State legislature voted to raise taxes on high-earners after Governor Andrew Cuomo reversed his longstanding opposition to such a move. Cuomo cited a large budget gap in explaining his about-face, but that gap is hardly new. What is
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David Callahan

Immigrant Ties and the Path to Citizenship

In recent years, the debate about immigration in the U.S. has focused largely on how best to expel the undocumented: more border security, bigger fences, and even moats have been proposed. It’s refreshing, then, to hear new ideas that acknowledge the humanity of those who immigrate to the U.S
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