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This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...
"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...
Dēmos president Taifa Smith Butler released the following statement following President Trump’s signing of the budget reconciliation bill: “Let’s be clear: this bill will have a catastrophic impact on ...
DURHAM, N.C. - Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Dēmos, a national nonprofit public policy organization, ...
The new working class is more racially diverse than it was decades ago, with more than 41 percent comprising African Americans (13 percent), Latinos (22 percent), and Asian Americans (4 percent). It’s ...
Key Findings The notion that all citizens have a voice in our country’s governance is at the center of the American ideal of democracy. Yet the role of corporate and private money in our political ...
GDP also does not capture the value added by volunteer work, and does not capture the value of caring for one’s own children. For example, if a family hires someone for childcare, that counts in GDP ...
Certiorari: An order by which a higher court reviews a lower court’s decision. In this report, certiorari is mainly used in the context of the Supreme Court reviewing a lower court decision. Emergency ...
Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism Even before the global pandemic drastically increased reliance on communications technology for working, learning, shopping, and socializing at a distance, ...
MYTH: Instead of expanding the Supreme Court, we should focus on lower court expansion. It is critically important to expand the lower courts to bring their capacity in line with current caseloads and ...
Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...
The 2008 financial crisis was no accident. It was the result of a decades-long deregulation effort, lobbied for by the financial industry and executed by our political institutions. Now, as the facts ...