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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

Making Life Harder for Community College Students

Rising levels of student debt and its long-term harm on recent graduates has received considerable news coverage, especially given recent activism by students against this alarming trend.
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Viany Orozco

Massachusetts Failing to Offer Voter Registration to Public Assistance Clients

BOSTON - Citing clear evidence that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is failing to provide low-income residents with a legally-mandated opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Demos, Project Vote, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association sent a pre
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Nuns, Seniors, UFOs, and the Growing Problem of Voter ID Requirements

Wisconsin's restrictive voter ID law functions like a de facto poll tax for over 175,000 older Wisconsinites who lack a government-issued photo ID.
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Adam Lioz

Education, Health Care Will Sway Youth Vote

Youth leaders and policy experts cited rising costs in education, health care, child care, and housing as key issues for winning the young vote in 2012.
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Adrianna McGinley

Hypocrisy and the Payroll Tax

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, but it still can be jolting in its most brazen forms. Exhibit A this week is opposition to an expanded and extended payroll tax cut. There has rarely been a tax cut proposal that conservatives in Congress didn't love -- except, suddenly, this one. Critics of the
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David Callahan

Dumping What Works: Austerity for Evidence-Based Programs

Programs like Head Start do not make money contingent on results -- Yana Paskova for The New York Times I confess there was something delicious in last Friday’s news that Republ
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Michael Lipsky

Renewable Energy: The Key To Liberty

When people talk about energy independence, they are often referring to the U.S. not having to rely on other countries to provide our energy supply. Here’s what energy independence should mean: individual freedom from big corporations and price manipulation.
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J. Mijin Cha

Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Countering Misinformation About Maryland’s "No Representation Without Population" Redistricting Law

Baltimore, MD – Strongly contending that the Republican-sponsored challenge to Maryland’s landmark 2010 civil rights law, the “No Representation Without Population Act,” runs directly contrary to its plaintiffs’ goal of increased representation for Maryland’s African-American community, a coalition
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Wrong Direction: Needless Layoffs of Government Workers

Today's employment numbers offer a moment of relief from the drumbeat of bad news coming from Europe. The economy added 120,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate is now down to its lowest level since March 2009 (although partly that's because of discouraged workers dropping out of the
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David Callahan

New Jobs Aren't Always Good Jobs

There are a few worrisome wrinkles in today's otherwise cheery employment numbers. First, mass layoffs of state and local government workers continue unabated, with 20,000 public employees fired last month. Second, the lower unemployment rate is partly due to many workers just giving up the job hunt
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David Callahan