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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

Does Starbucks Understand the Science of Racial Bias?

As the idea of implicit bias has permeated our culture, an entire industry has sprung up, like mushrooms after rain, to conduct trainings meant to raise awareness of the problem and counteract it. But few of the implicit-bias trainings that are now de rigueur have been rigorously evaluated. Many don
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Jessica Nordell

Ending the Policing of Black Bodies in Public Spaces Requires Not Just a Change of Policy but a Change of Heart

In our nation’s operating system, aggressively controlling black people in public spaces is a feature, not a bug.
In the media
Connie M. Razza

Inside a swanky New York party for graduates who paid off their student loans

SoFi, known for its student loan refinancing products, treated its newly debt-free customers to cocktails on a rooftop bar and restaurant. [...]
In the media
Jillian Berman

Mobilizing on May Day

This year in the United States, International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, actually feels like the day of resistance and struggle it was intended to be.
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Amy Traub
Woman holding poster above her head at Community Voices Heard rally

Community Voices Heard: Leading the Fight for Fair Housing

Community Voices Heard is leading the charge to hold the New York City Housing Authority accountable to its obligations to low-income residents.
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Carol Lautier, Ph.D.
Algernon Austin
Afua Atta-Mensah

Earth Day Action Shows Fighting Climate Change Means Fighting for Justice

The causes and effects of climate change are interwoven with racial, economic, and political inequity. Groups are building bridges across movements to address these intertwined, wicked problems.
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Adrien Salazar

Happy birthday, America’s $1 trillion student-debt problem

Six years ago today, on April 25, 2012, activists took to the streets to mark the country’s outstanding student-loan debt surpassing $1 trillion. And in the years since, many of the trends that pushed student debt levels to climb have persisted and in some cases gotten worse.
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Jillian Berman

Three African American Racial Justice Leaders Respond to Starbucks Effort to End Bias In Its Company

NEW YORK, NY — Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Heather McGhee, president of Demos released a statement today regarding their participation on the
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Starbucks needs more than racial bias training after men's arrest, experts say

Heather McGhee will develop the Starbucks training plan with the former US attorney general Eric Holder and representatives of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education fund, the Equal Justice Initiative and the Anti-Defamation League.
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Hakeem Jefferson
Neil Lewis, Jr.

“I Am Those People”

While no law prevents outside donors, for example, from investing in the campaign of a low-income person, the likelihood that they’ll do so is low. The problem is social capital: Low-income people lack it, and so their personal networks do not often contain millionaires with open pocketbooks.
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Sarah Jones