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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
Black mother and daughter looking at the city river

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

Thanks, Bob

Saturday was Bob Herbert's
In the media
Miles Rapoport

Groups Request Info on Reactor Exemptions, Evacuation

Richard Brodsky, a former New York Assemblyman, currently serving as a senior fellow at the national policy center Demos, has sent a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) request to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B.
In the media

The People's Journalist, Bob Herbert, Steps Down at The New York Times

After almost 18 years, a unique, compassionate voice and champion for the nameless, faceless downtrodden will be silenced. Bob Herbert wrote his last column for the New York Times on Friday March 25th. Who will replace him and become that voice for those who need one most?
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Pearl Korn

Losing Our Way

Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline. So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries
In the media
Bob Herbert

Japan crisis renews US debate over nuclear power

But Richard Brodsky, a former long-time New York legislator and lawyer who has done battle with Indian Point on a range of issues, argued in an interview Tuesday that the NRC has been no tougher a regulator than the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies that allowed the
In the media

Separate and Unequal

If you really want to improve the education of poor children, you have to get them away from learning environments that are smothered by poverty. One of the most powerful tools for improving the educational achievement of poor black and Hispanic public school students is, regrettably, seldom even
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Bob Herbert

A Price Too High?

Is Nuclear Power Worth The Risk? Worst-case scenarios unfold more frequently than we’d like to believe, which leads to two major questions regarding nuclear power that Americans have an obligation to answer. First, can a disaster comparable to the one in Japan happen here? The answer, of course, is
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Bob Herbert

It's too risky to keep Indian Point nuclear power plant open: Gov. Cuomo

On March 4, Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska upheld an NRC decision to let Indian Point operator Entergy use insulation that withstands fire for only 27 minutes.
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Douglas Feidan
Brian Kates

Indian Point Near New York City on List of High-Risk Nuclear Plants

The crisis in Japan has reignited intense debate among lawmakers about the safety of U.S. nuclear-power plants; nowhere more so than at Indian Point, where two aging reactors are 24 miles north of New York City.
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Ellen Tumposky

Report: Proposed bill to deregulate telephone service would raise prices, hurt consumers

Rates for basic landline telephone service would probably go up if a bill moving rapidly through the Legislature becomes law, according to a report to be released today by two interest groups. The report, by the left-leaning New Jersey Policy Perspective and Demos, cites a 2009 survey by the
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Matt Friedman