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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

Demos and The Century Foundation Announce Launch of The Fiscal High Road Project And Website

Initiative Aims to Strengthen Social Insurance, Promote Broadly Shared Prosperity, Set the Record Straight on Federal Spending New York — Demos and The Century Foundation today launched an initiative to strengthen social insurance programs and develop a roadmap for a fair and responsible federal
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STATEMENT: American Seniors Living Longer on Less

3 out of 4 senior households lack the economic security needed to sustain them through their lives, according to new study New York, NY — Older Americans have experienced huge, negative financial shifts that now make it more difficult to enter retirement with sustainable economic security, a new
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Gateway to Success

Each year, many talented students from low-income areas and families either choose not to attend college at all or drop out under the pressure to keep a job. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, brainchild of the Microsoft mogul, is out to change that. The organization recently unveiled an
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Christina Caldwell

What Obama Didn't Say

As President Obama takes office, and the nation reflects on the historic moment and its significance, Demos Senior Fellows John Schwarz and Lew Daly remind us that America is more than just “common blood, or race, or ethnic background or religion.” America is about freedom, they argue, and its up to
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Lew Daly
John Schwarz

STATEMENT: New Book on Wealth, "Unjust Deserts," by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly

A New Look at Wealth in the United States New York, NY — The 2008 presidential campaign ended with a sharp moral debate about "spreading the wealth" in the United States. With national concern about a barrage of bad economic news--from the financial meltdown on Wall Street to the near-bankruptcy of
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STATEMENT: Coalition of Higher Education Groups Urge Investment in College Affordability as Part of Stimulus Package

Proposal to Expand Funding for Low-Income Students; Increased Access to Federal Loan Program New York, NY — Demos, a national, non-partisan, public policy and advocacy organization, in partnership with twelve national organizations representing students, colleges, consumers, and college
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Demos Joins Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Initiative

Goal to Double the Number of Low- Income Students in the U.S. Who Earn a Postsecondary Degree by Age 26
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The Rich Are Hogging Our Common Inheritance -- We Must Take It Back

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from " Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back " by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, published by the New Press , 2008.
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Lew Daly
Gar Alperovitz

Unjust Deserts: An Interview with Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly

IF THE conservative era now collapsing around us had a reigning idea, it was best expressed by Margaret Thatcher when she declared with Bourbonesque flair that “there is no such thing as society.” In their new book Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take
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James Lardner

A Case for Better Jobs, Better Care

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Charles Baker