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This Demos Explainer explores the tension between political support for deficit reduction versus job creation and economic security policies. 

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J. Mijin Cha

Spoiler alert: they do not. Rules work in corporations favor and against workers.

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Liz Kennedy
Sean McElwee
A corporation is a legal structure that enables individuals to contribute and pool resources, capital, and labor in order to generate a profit. Corporations are created by state law in the state in which they are incorporated. The corporate legal structure receives a number of advantages and
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In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court held that corporations were free to use money from the corporation’s treasury on political activity.1 Setting aside for a moment the many criticisms of the decision, Citizens United left open a number of questions about who at a corporation should
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Liz Kennedy

Reflections and Questions for the Next Phase

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Lew Daly

Laura Williamson

Former Associate Director of Democracy

For decades, GDP has enjoyed supreme status as the predominant benchmark of our economic and social progress. In reality, GDP obscures or ignores essential aspects of Americans’ economic and social welfare, as well as important social and environmental dimensions of our national welfare and future

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Lew Daly
Stephen Posner

The Financial Infrastructure Exchange (FIX) is a federal tax-and-subsidy program to promote long-term investment in a financial system that otherwise prioritizes short-term gains. 

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Wallace C. Turbeville

Quantifying the cost of climate change to millennials and their children, compared to a world without climate change.

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New Study Outlines the Crippling Costs of Climate Change to Millennials and Their Children
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