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The specter of voter fraud is a talking point deployed to silence the voices of Black and brown voters across the country.
Policy Briefs
April 14, 2020
Chiraag Bains
Laura Williamson
Brief submitted on behalf of Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute and the League of Women Voters of Ohio
Litigation
March 24, 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic threatens to disrupt the Presidential
Preference Primary election in Florida. The extension of vote-by-mail options and other accommodations at polling places is necessary.
Litigation
March 16, 2020
To fairly evaluate any higher education reform proposal, we must understand the ways that these dual burdens—less wealth and more debt—lead to worse outcomes for Black students than white students.
Research
September 9, 2019
Suzanne Kahn
Mark Huelsman
Jen Mishory
The Case for Bold, Equitable Student Loan Cancellation and Reform
How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis
Policy Briefs
April 26, 2019
How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
Policy Briefs
April 15, 2019
Lew Daly
Priya Mulgaonkar
New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.
Policy Briefs
March 20, 2019
Most states have very far to go in making their selective public institutions representative, and thus truly public.
Research
December 12, 2018
A Policy and Messaging Guide for States to Make Higher Education Affordable Again
Research
September 26, 2018
An outline of Demos' approach to engaging across climate and equity issues, their respective fields, and partners working in the fields.
Research
September 10, 2018
The Debt-Free College Act of 2018 would create a new federal-state partnership that re-funds our neglected system of public colleges and job training.
Policy Briefs
March 22, 2018
A 50-State Look at Rising College Prices and the New American Student
Research
February 22, 2018
Comparing Tuition Then and Now At Our Elected Officials' Alma Maters
Research
February 15, 2018
As with any big reform, the push for debt-free college has been met with pushback among a skeptical elite. We have answers for their major concerns.
Policy Briefs
September 28, 2016
Quantifying the cost of climate change to millennials and their children, compared to a world without climate change.
How a Shared Definition of College Affordability Exposes a Crisis for Low-Income Students
If nearly 70 percent of graduates are borrowing, 30 percent (including 35 percent of public college graduates) are not. Who are these students? What type of family or financial resources do they have at their disposal? What are their work habits? In short, what does it take to graduate debt-free these days? This brief answers these questions.
Student loans are treated differently than almost every other form of debt incurred by American households.
Research
November 24, 2015
How we can lower student debt while closing the Black-White wealth gap.
Research
November 24, 2015
Mark Huelsman
Tamara Draut
Tatjana Meschede
Lars Dietrich
Thomas Shapiro
Laura Sullivan