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• Voting Rights Advocates Sue to Bring Bilingual Elections to 32 Florida Counties

  16 août 2018, par Shanae Bass
  Release Date: August 16, 2018 Gainesville, FL – Today, civic engagement groups Faith in Florida, Hispanic Federation, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, UnidosUS, and Vamos4PR, and individual voter Marta Rivera filed suit against Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner and the Supervisors of (...)

• Florida Officials Are Breaking The Law By Not Offering Spanish Ballots, Suit Claims

  16 août 2018
  The Huffington Post | Sam Levine Stuart Naifeh, a lawyer with the think tank Demos, which is representing Rivera and five nonprofit groups that work to mobilize Spanish-speaking voters, said they chose the 32 counties using census data to identify places where there were high concentrations of (...)

• Demos urges CMS to Withdraw Proposed Rule on Reassignment of Medicaid Provider Claims

  15 août 2018 — Advocacy Letter
  August 13, 2018 https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Demos%20Home%20Care%20Worker%20Comment%202018.pdf Author: Amy Traub Dear Ms. Verma: I am writing on behalf of Demos to urge you to withdraw the proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and (...)

• Is Racial Hatred More or Less Empowered One Year After Charlottesville ?

  14 août 2018
  WDET 101.9 FM | Stephen Henderson Heather McGhee is distinguished senior fellow with Demos, a New York based public policy think tank, and an expert on race and inequality. She joins Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson to give her thoughts on what we’ve learned — and what we haven’t learned — (...)

• Democratic and Republican voters agree that America faces a student-debt crisis

  11 août 2018
  Market Watch | Jillian Berman But the poll released this week suggests the debate is going on separately from how Americans experience student debt, said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. And indeed, there are many reasons why voters may be feeling (...)

• US government failing millions by paying below $15 an hour, study finds

  10 août 2018
  The Guardian | Mike Elk Union groups and other campaigners see such moves as an attack on their power to secure higher wages for workers. “[This is] an often low-paid and vulnerable workforce of predominantly women of color who do critical work helping seniors and people with disabilities with (...)

• How Social Exclusion Wrecks the Labor Market for Everyone

  10 août 2018, par Amy Traub
  People of color suffer direct and damaging impacts from laws, policies, and practices that exclude them from full and equal participation in the labor market and the workplace. read more

• On Appeals Court, Kavanaugh Helped To Loosen Political Money Laws

  8 août 2018
  NPR | Peter Overby Kavanaugh has been on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, a frequent destination for cases involving the Federal Election Commission. His decisions have effectively pulled the campaign finance system rightward, letting in more money with less regulation. (...)

• Demos Issues Statement Urging Department of Commerce to Reject Last-Minute Addition of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census Questionnaire

  8 août 2018
  Release Date: August 8, 2018 Today, in a public comment addressed to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Demos strongly objects to the addition of an untested question on citizenship status to the 2020 decennial Census. Brenda Wright, Senior Advisor of Legal Strategies at Demos, says the proposed (...)

• Demos Sends Letter Urging Department of Commerce to Reject Last-Minute Addition of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census Questionnaire

  7 août 2018 — Advocacy Letter
  August 7, 2018 https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Demos%20comment%20letter.8.2018.pdf Author: Brenda Wright Author: Chiraag Bains RE: Comments on Proposed Information Collection on 2020 Census, Docket ID: USBC-2018-0005 Dear Ms. Jessup: We are writing on behalf of Demos to (...)

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