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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 Statement on Muslim Ban

New York, NY – In response to Trump’s new Muslim Ban, Demos Vice President of External Affairs Tori O'Neal-McElrath released the following statement: "Donald Trump's new restriction on immigration from eight countries is a sham, and substantively a third Muslim Ban. The principal imperative of this
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How the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Could Wind Up Increasing Student Loan Debt

States will have 2 options, neither of them good: They could preserve higher education funding at the expense of health care subsidies, or vice versa.
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Mark Huelsman

After Equifax Breach, Lawmakers Propose Credit Screening Restrictions for Employment

"These consumer protections are important, yet they are far from sufficient to prevent credit checks from becoming a barrier to employment," said Amy Traub, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a public-policy think tank in New York City. "My research finds that poor credit is linked to economic stress
In the media
Roy Maurer
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Why We Are Not Making Progress Against Racism

For those who believe Black people are already equal with white people, any policy that seeks to address anti-Black discrimination looks like an attempt to give Blacks an advantage.
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Algernon Austin

Reading #TheResistance: A Dispatch From The Brooklyn Book Festival

The need for books as a source of knowledge was on display in a conversation between Heather McGhee, president of liberal think tank Demos, and Chris Hayes, a Brooklyn native and cable news pundit on MSNBC. [...]
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Matthew Miles Goodrich

Demos and ACLU File Supreme Court Brief in their Case Challenging Ohio’s Voter Purges

NEW YORK — Demos and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court detailing how Ohio is violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by targeting registered voters who fail to vote in a two-year period for eventual removal from the registration rolls — even
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The real reason Ivy League students graduate with the least amount of debt

“If you’re a college and you’re offering a very low level of prospective debt to students, that means nothing if the people who overall have more unmet financial need, or are more likely to have to borrow, can’t get into your institution,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left
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Jillian Berman

Black Caucus Claims Trump’s GOP Budget Is Inhumane

The Congressional Black Caucus budget should be implemented because it calls for racial equity in future infrastructure and investments; improving public transit infrastructure, noting that people of color are heavy users of it; and school infrastructure, saying that modernized buildings held reduce
In the media
James Wright

Working Americans Need Senator Warren’s Equal Employment for All Act More than Ever

By eliminating employment credit checks, the bill would remove an unfair and discriminatory barrier to economic mobility and security.
Blog
Amy Traub

The best colleges in the country — at least, according to one source

Some, like Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank, say the rankings’ incentives push colleges to take steps that often come at the expense of educating a wider swath of qualified students.
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Jillian Berman