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We are looking ahead with urgency and resolve. We are building power to defend and expand the promise of America for the next ...
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 ...
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 ...
The scale of federal agency spending has the potential to reshape entire industries across our economy—to either create ...
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 ...
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 ...
A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them. Demos, in partnership with grassroots leaders on the front lines of the struggle ...
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 ...
In an America where communities of color have been shut out of traditional ladders of economic opportunity, a system based entirely on acquiring debt to get ahead may have very different impacts on ...