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If You Live in This State, You Could Have Your Student Loans Forgiven

“We’ve already had a lot of states use student debt relief as a carrot to entering certain professions,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. “Now that most professions have student debtors in them you’re going to see broad-based relief plans,” like New York’s, he said.
 
New York’s is it’s linked specifically to income, so anyone making a relatively low salary — whether it’s an artist working out of a loft space in Bushwick or a nonprofit researcher toiling away in midtown — qualifies.
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Jillian Berman

A New, Groundbreaking Plan to Fix Finance

New Demos Proposal Details How to Direct Capital Investments into America’s Long-Term Infrastructure and Sustainability Needs

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A Lot of Young Seem to Think We're Already Living in a Post-Sexist America

America could elect its first woman president next year, but even that would be a hollow sign of progress in a country mired in gender inequity.
 
The Supreme Court may well gut Roe v. Wade. Access to abortion and contraception has regressed dramatically, and clinics face increasing intimidation. The pay gap is stubbornly broad.
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Sean McElwee

A Smarter Plan to Make Retirement Savings Last

Last month, President Obama inaugurated yet another way to encourage Americans to save for retirement. In the new myRA accounts, workers can save up to $15,000 in a low-fee investment plan that, like a government savings bond, guarantees the principal. The accounts are a small step toward helping households save, but they are not an effective solution to the coming retirement crisis.
 
Starting in 2020, the numbers of very low-income elderly will rise sharply as the retired population soars to almost 56 million.
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Teresa Ghilarducci
Hamilton James

2015: The Year That Black Lives Mattered, At Last

⌗BlackLivesMatter is a young movement, literally and demographically. Democrats need young black voters, a key part of “the rising American electorate” that twice propelled Barack Obama into the white house. As Donovan X.

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Terrance Heath

Toward a New Understanding of “We the People”

Does the arc bend, slowly, towards justice? Or is the course that was set at our nation’s founding so deeply misguided that progress towards true justice is asymptotic? Must we, in fact, break the arc and create a new structure?

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Heather McGhee

It's Time for the DOJ to Investigate Sandra Bland's Death

Sandra Bland’s arrest after a routine traffic stop was a terrible injustice; her death three days later was a tragedy; the fact that no one will be held accountable is beyond comprehension but, unfortunately, all too familiar.

Yesterday, a Texas grand jury failed to indict any of the officers or jail workers who came into contact with Sandra Bland.

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Heather McGhee

How All New Yorkers Benefit When Municipal Workers Get Paid Parental Leave

Now that’s a holiday gift! On Tuesday, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that approximately 20,000 employees of New York City would be guaranteed paid parental leave—giving mothers and fathers critical time off to bond with a new baby, adoptee, or foster child without giving up a paycheck.  

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Amy Traub

The Missing Black Millennials

The Democrats need young black voters. But the political party of our parents doesn’t seem to know how to reach us — the black millennials they can’t afford to lose — this time around.

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