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The NVRA was intended to make voter registration widely available at agencies serving the public, and is an important tool for modernizing voter registration. Ensuring compliance with NVRA requirements increases voter registration rates, particularly among low-income populations. Expanding the

Policy Briefs
Liz Kennedy

Same Day Registration (SDR) allows eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on the same day, at the same time.

Policy Briefs
J. Mijin Cha
Liz Kennedy

16 policies and practices that would make registration more accessible and seamless, lead to more effective and efficient election administration, and strengthen protections for voters’ rights.

Policy Briefs
J. Mijin Cha
Liz Kennedy

Repeatedly during his campaign, Donald Trump appealed to black voters by asking, “What do you have to lose?” We now have enough evidence to answer the question definitively: everything.

Research
Algernon Austin

Walmart's raises to $9 an hour in 2015 and then to $10 an hour in 2016 is a positive step forward, but it still falls short of giving workers the wages they need.

Research
Amy Traub
Sean McElwee

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies.

Research
Amy Traub
Laura Sullivan
Tatjana Meschede
Thomas Shapiro

If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

Research
Sean McElwee

How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

Research
Laura Williamson
Pamela Cataldo
Brenda Wright

The Supreme Court got it supremely wrong when it held that corporations had the same rights as people to spend money in elections.

Policy Briefs
Liz Kennedy

Public policies can either fuel or ease racial disparities in wealth. This report marks the first-ever systematic analysis of the impact of different policies, highlighting the policies that could help erase the racial wealth gap.

Research
Amy Traub
Catherine Ruetschlin
Laura Sullivan
Tatjana Meschede
Lars Dietrich
Thomas Shapiro