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The Importance of Senator Warren's Equal Employment for All Act

Demos Vice President of Policy and Outreach Heather McGhee voices support for Senator Warren's Equal Employment for

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Key Fights Ahead for Right to Vote

Voting rights advocates are girding for a series of crucial battles that will play out over the next twelve months in Congress, in the courts, and in state legislatures. Victories could go a long way to reversing the setbacks of the last year. Defeats could help cement a new era in which voting is more difficult, especially for racial minorities, students, and the poor.

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Zachary Roth

The Nanny State We Need

A few years ago, I got pulled over on my bicycle by a police officer, also riding a bike, because I wasn't wearing a helmet -- which the officer incorrectly said was required by law. It's episodes like that which give the nanny state a bad name. 

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David Callahan

Massive Credit Card Debt Threatens the African American Middle Class

Middle-class Blacks are using credit to help cover their basic living expenses, according to a report from the NAACP and public policy research organization Demos. In the recession’s aftermath, 79 percent of middle-class African-American households carry credit card debt. 

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Jazelle Hunt

Here's How Obamacare Makes Americans More Free

Few values matter more to Americans than freedom. And now, as key provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect, America is becoming a freer country. 
 
That's certainly how Katie R. Norvell sees it. The New York Times quotes this 33-year-old music therapist, who has been uninsured for three and a half years due to a pre-existing condition, as saying: "I feel a huge sense of relief. With coverage.
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David Callahan

How Obama Can Kick Off the Minimum-Wage Push

The New York Times reported this morning (echoing the reporting of Greg Sargent and others earlier this year) that Democrats plan to campaign on raising the minimum wage during the election season.  Aside from being good economic policy, raising the minimum wage is quite popular,

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George Zornick

Is the Creative Class an Enemy of Urban Equity?

If affluent people decide that cities are great places to live, how do we stop lower and middle income people from being priced out? That's a tough and complex problem, but not one that Alec MacGillis seriously addresses in his gratuitously snarky attack on Richard Florida in the New Republic. 

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David Callahan

The Killer "Moral Values" Issue in 2014? Work

Once upon a time, conservatives were famously good at what George Lakoff called "moral politics." They won over Americans with simple -- often simplistic -- value propositions. Progressives, meanwhile, often struggled with this dimension of politics, gravitating more toward consumerist appeals about expanding individual rights or delivering economic gains. Most maddeningly, conservatives grabbed the value of work and, for a long time, scored big political and policy gains by trumpeting the edict that nobody should get welfare or social benefits who didn't work.
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David Callahan

Dog Whistle Politics: Ian Haney López at TEDxUOregon

Race. Racism. Politics. Critical race theory. Demos Senior Fellow and Constitutional law.

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