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 ...

The median white adult who attended college has 7.2 times more wealth than the median black adult who attended college and 3.9 times more wealth than the median Latino adult who attended college.

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 ...

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 ...

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city. 1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

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 ...

This case study is part of Demos’ new Economic Democracy project, which asks how poor and working-class people, especially in Black and brown communities, can exercise greater control over the ...