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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

Budget Stalemate Puts Seniors Futures at Risk

New York, NY-- Recent comments made by President Obama about the threat of budget negotiations stalling crucial social security payments have highlighted the growing pain felt by America's seniors. A new report "From Bad to Worse: Senior Economic Insecurity On the Rise," from the Institute on Assets
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A Window Into Region's Housing Crisis

“The middle class is not on the same solid footing that it once was,” said Jennifer Wheary, who cowrote a study on the recession’s impact on middle-class African Americans and Latinos with Brandeis University and the New York think tank Demos.
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Cynthia Barton

The Three-Digit Number that Can Wreck Your Life

“If you’re out of work for a long time, you have difficulty paying your bills,” says Amy Traub, coauthor of a June report from the think tank Demos that calls for reform of the credit reporting industry. “If potential employers are looking at credit scores, how on earth are you going to pay your
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Steve Yoder

Pennsylvania Annual Unemployment Rate Is Highest In Nearly 30 Years

Pittsburgh-The newly released national June jobs report showed 200,000 people joined the unemployment lines last month. In Pennsylvania, where the annual unemployment rate is the highest it has been in nearly three decades and state tuition/student debt is on the rise, the state's low- and middle
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Study Says Pennsylvania Ranks 6th in College Debt

"College graduates are less likely to get a job," said Anna Pycior, a spokeswoman for Demos. "If you do manage to get a job, it is getting less and less likely you will be provided with health benefits and you will face the increasingly bleak prospect of a retirement plan. "All of it while trying to
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Ann Belser

House Members To Call on DOJ to Investigate Voter ID Measures in States; Voting Rights Group Applauds Effort

For Immediate Release July 13, 2011 Alex Amend, [email protected], 212.389.1411 Anna Pycior, [email protected], 914.330.1103 House Members To Call on DOJ to Investigate Voter ID Measures in States; Voting Rights Group Applauds Effort 7/13 Press Conference Hosted by Rep. Fudge to Discuss
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As Grim Jobs Numbers Are Released, New Report Outlines Florida

For Immediate Release July 13, 2011 Contact & RSVP:
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New EAC Report Shows Increased Voter Registration Among Low-Income Americans

New York-A newly released review of a June 27 report by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) shows that voter registration application rates at state public assistance agencies have risen sharply following National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) enforcement actions by advocacy groups Demos
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When Judges Act Like Politicians

The Devastating Impact Of This Right-Leaning, Ideological Court May Only Get Worse Last week, an HBO film crew was in my Manhattan neighborhood shooting a movie about legendary record producer Phil Spector, now serving nineteen years to life for the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
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JP Morgan Chase: More Evidence of Wrongdoing

After last week -- when JP Morgan Chase settled charges by the SEC that it engaged in rigged bidding -- its CEO Jamie Dimon has even more explaining to do.
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David Callahan