From protesting outside a courthouse to shaping policy inside the White House, former Dēmos president Sabeel Rahman learned a ...

We need a society that ensures that every person who works receives a living wage and that they also have a genuine voice in ...

Former Dēmos president Heather McGhee reflects on how the organization grew from a small experiment in policy advocacy into ...

What would a truly equitable tax code look like? Dēmos breaks down the congressional proposals that could shift resources ...

Black women are often the first to feel economic pressure and the last to recover. Their unemployment data is a clearer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The City of Detroit’s bankruptcy was driven by a severe decline in revenues (and, importantly, not an increase in obligations to fund pensions). Depopulation and long-term unemployment caused ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

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 ...