We are looking ahead with urgency and resolve. We are building power to defend and expand the promise of America for the next ...

The scale of federal agency spending has the potential to reshape entire industries across our economy—to either create ...

Orlando, FL — Voting and immigrants’ rights advocates intervened in a lawsuit today in Florida Decides Healthcare INC, et al., v Cord Byrd, et al., in the United States District Court in Northern ...

Introducing a groundbreaking tool for the people. This 50-state snapshot maps current economic and socio-political conditions in our communities and shows where every state can work to build power for ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

Today, the typical young person aspiring to go to college in the United States faces a higher education system that is fundamentally different from what previous generations enjoyed. For generations, ...

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies Issues of racial inequity are increasingly at the ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

1. “Independent” Spending Farce Leads To SuperPACs The Supreme Court thought non-candidate spending would be “independent” and therefore non-corrupting. This proposition not only beggars belief, it ...

Over the last ten years, a growing number of cities and states passed laws limiting the use of credit checks in hiring, promotion, and firing. Lawmakers are motivated by a number of well-founded ...

This analysis shows the policy approaches most likely to reduce inequities in wealth by race, as opposed to exacerbating existing inequities. The dramatic increase in wealth inequality over the past ...

This paper is the first in a series of short pieces from Demos concerning the dynamics of social exclusion and the relationship between individual instances of hostility towards people of color in the ...