Poor people are typically democracy’s missing persons. But the patterns of low-income voting show what really motivates the voters on election day.
David Callahan
David Callahan is a senior fellow at Demos and editor of PolicyShop, the Demos blog.
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Clash in the States
Many people think of Oregon as a liberal bastion: an “ecotopia” where environmental protection is a priority, the law permits the terminally ill to choose death over protracted suffering, and citizens once voted by initiative for the highest state minimum wage in the country. But in fact, conservatives have quite a foothold in Oregon. Republicans […]
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The Greening of the Tax System
Would an environmentalist kill two birds with one stone? Not ordinarily. But taxes on pollution and waste can discourage environmentally harmful activities and produce revenues for environmentally beneficial programs.