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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

Banking Industry Endorses Obama's Appointment of Richard Cordray

The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama will appoint Richard Cordray today as the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Agency, all but ensuring a pageantry of exploding heads on the right.
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Alex Amend

STATEMENT: Demos Commends President Obama’s Appointment of Richard Cordray to Lead the CFPB

We can’t afford to let Wall Street keep taking us for a ride: Americans need a strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to bring fairness and accountability to the financial sector.
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The End of Ethanol Subsidies

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J. Mijin Cha

Federal Court Victory for Maryland Law Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering

NEW YORK -- On Friday, Dec 23, a federal three-judge panel unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Maryland’s landmark “ No Representation Without Population Act,” which counts incarcerated people as residents of their legal home addresses for redistricting purposes.
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Make Caucuses More Democratic

Are caucuses paragons of participatory democracy, unrepresentative playgrounds for zealots, both, or somewhere in between?
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Adam Lioz

Wall Street Journal Advances False Climate Claims, Refuses to Publish Correction

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J. Mijin Cha

The Year In Review: New Evidence of Poverty Amid Riches

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David Callahan

The Year In Review: The War on Voting

Laws to restrict or curtail voting spread like wild fire across the country in 2011 with 19 new state laws now in effect.
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Tamara Draut

The Year in Review: Consumers Get A New Watchdog

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially opened for business in July 2011.
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David Callahan

Wealthy Congress, Strapped Americans

The Washington Post has a striking analysis of the growing wealth gap between members of Congress and average Americans. It finds that the "median net worth of a member of the House in 2009 was more than 2 1 / 2 times greater than it was in 1984 — $725,00 vs. $280,000 — when adjusted for inflation.
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David Callahan