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Three years have passed since David (the American public) defeated Goliath (the big banks) and the Dodd-Frank Act became law. Implementation staggers forward and there have been some recent encouraging developments. But, overall, there is reason for serious concern about the fate of financial reform
Policy Briefs
Wallace C. Turbeville
Thirty seven. That's how many attempts House Republicans have made to strike down the Affordable Care Act. Most of the attempts gave been focused on dismantling the law as a whole, and while the current version is not as robust as Obama's original proposals, the law has survived extensive attacks.
Blog
Ilana Novick
How financial market practices not only risk catastrophic systemic failure like 2008, they constitute a massive extraction of value from the real economy by the financial sector.
Blog
Wallace C. Turbeville
Employers don't want to look at the resumes of unemployed people. In fact, they don't even want those resumes sent to them. Some employers will actually do whatever it takes — without doing anything illegal — to prevent the unemployed from applying for positions at their company.
In the media
Vivian Giang
Over the past decade or two, top transnational corporations -- including Apple, GE, and Google -- have figured out how to sidestep national tax collection systems, depriving governments of billions of dollars in revenues.
Blog
David Callahan
Among immigrant groups, Asian American/Pacific Islander communities are often stereotyped as a “model minority,” and an immigration economic success story. However, this stereotype masks the wide diversity -- ethnic and economic -- that exists within the Asian and Asian-American communities.
Blog
J. Mijin Cha
Financial markets, now heavily dependent on technology, need to be safeguarded against cyberattacks, natural disasters and the more prosaic scourge of human error that can cause massive disruptions, according to experts and a federal panel.
In the media
Tamara Lytle
Imagine having an African-American president who talks openly and bluntly about race in America and the experience of being black -- a president who explains what it's like to get on an elevator with a white woman or concedes the ease with which he could be shot dead in another life just because of
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David Callahan
The following is a published Letter to the Editor to the New York Times in response to their editorial " The Decline of North Carolina." The attack on voting rights in North Carolina is a shameful attempt by the state’s politicians to curtail access to the ballot, in ways devised particularly to
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Liz Kennedy
Re “ The Decline of North Carolina” (editorial, July 10): The attack on voting rights in North Carolina is a shameful attempt by the state’s politicians to curtail access to the ballot, in ways devised particularly to discourage voting by African-Americans.
In the media
Liz Kennedy