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    How changes to how the Census counts people has implications for democracy and inequality

How changes to how the Census counts people has implications for democracy and inequality

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The US Census Bureau recently announced that it will be changing the demographics it measures and how it counts people. Hannah L. Walker and Rebecca U. Thorpe argue that the Bureau’s revisions are an important opportunity to correct current practices of counting prisoners as residents where they are incarcerated rather than in their home communities. Such practices distort democratic […]

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    Here’s what the Democrats need to do to get the DREAM Act through Congress.

Here’s what the Democrats need to do to get the DREAM Act through Congress.

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Last week the United States government shut down for the first time in nearly 5 years. At the centre of the shutdown was the impasse between Democrats and Republicans over the DREAM Act, which would grant residency to those who came to the US as the children of undocumented immigrants. While the Democrats eventually agreed to a budget which […]

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    Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals

Allies in name only? Latino-only leadership on DACA may trigger implicit racial biases among White liberals

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At the beginning of September, President Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program within six months. Activists mobilized immediately in response to protect the program which provides temporary shelter from deportation to those covered by the DREAM Act. In new survey research, Sergio Garcia-Rios, Kassra AR Oskooii and Hannah Walker find that when […]

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