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Credit reports and scores control access to public goods people need. Yet, in the midst of a global pandemic and economic collapse, remaking the nation’s credit reporting system is not the top concern. 

“Student debt is both a cause and a consequence of the racial wealth gap."

In record numbers and in the face of a global pandemic, Americans voted early and on Election Day, and availed themselves of mail-in voting. But the right to vote includes the right to have your vote counted.

“This is a microcosm of many intra-progressive, intra-left policy debates—whether it’s better to do something universal and achieve something with relative ease or ensure that only those struggling by some definition get relief."

Despite all the barriers, our communities showed up for democracy. Here is what must come next.

American democracy wasn't functioning well for many Americans before this election. Sure, it's working well as it was designed by our all-white, all-male founding fathers — to protect white political power — but it's still failing Black and brown people.

A recent report by the national think tank Demos recommended jail staff take additional steps to ensure people are not disenfranchised because they are in jail.

We should think of November 3rd as merely the first of many days of electoral uncertainty while states count every vote. And that is okay.

Voting has always been one of the most powerful tools of a justice-seeking people determined to defeat oppression and its propagators.