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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

How the Trump administration is undermining students of color

Black students are far more likely to take on debt for a degree than white students, and young black households have more student debt despite fewer educational opportunities and a more uncertain payoff in the job market.
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Mark Huelsman
Vijay Das

The wilderness: Testing Dem messages

Demos (pronounced with long "e") — a public-policy group trying to shape a Democratic agenda on working-class issues like household indebtedness, college affordability and economic challenges facing young people — tested economic messages with an online survey of 1,536 registered voters in June.
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Mike Allen

Demos Releases New Research Showing Broad Support for a Bold Economic Agenda

Data show pocketbook issues including minimum wage, debt-free college and infrastructure are top priorities for likely voters Today, Demos, a leading progressive think tank released new polling data that identifies the economic priorities of progressives, working-class people of color, and working
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Is All Debt Bad Debt for Latinos and African Americans?

Recently, Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, and Michelle Singletary, a personal finance columnist for the Washington Post, had a little debate about debt in the Washington Post. Singletary’s view is that all debt is bad debt. Bernstein’s view is that debt can
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Algernon Austin

Another consequence of rising college costs: Declining homeownership

“We think of education funding, particularly at the state level, as a spending issue, but it’s myopic,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. “There are all kinds of second order effects to investing in education — homeownership or wealth building is
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Jillian Berman

State Election Officials Fear Feds Are Making Security Worse

"State officials are rightly wary of the goals of the commission because it does seem that the whole purpose for setting it up is to justify a preordained conclusion that somehow millions of votes were cast illegally in the last election," says Brenda Wright, vice president for policy and legal
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Alan Greenblatt

While Kobach Commission Bumbles, DOJ Sends Its Own Voter Suppression Signals

“It indicates that the focus of DOJ is going to be on pushing states to take more and more people off the rolls, instead of enforcing the provisions of the NVRA that assist voters in getting registered and staying on the rolls,” said Brenda Wright, vice president of policy and legal strategies at
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Tierney Sneed

How Trump’s DOJ Will Try to Purge Voter Rolls

Brenda Wright, a lawyer at the left-leaning advocacy organization Demos, emphasizes that progressives want voter rolls to be accurate. What her group opposes, she said, are purging practices that are known to sweep up eligible voters.
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Leon Neyfakh

Our Government Should Work to Improve Motor Voter Compliance and Increase Registration Numbers, Not Attempt to Remove Eligible Voters From the Rolls

There are approximately 50 million eligible people who are not registered to vote in the United States.
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Naila Awan

Don Jr. “Smoking Gun” Emails New Test for Conservative Politicians: Choose Country Over Party Now?

Will conservative politicians’ hypocrisy on election integrity endure through the latest revelations?
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Adam Lioz