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

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

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

Former Dēmos president Miles Rapoport reflects on stepping in as the organization’s second president and carrying forward the ...

"The Court has effectively stripped Black, Latino, Native American, Asian American and other voters of color of the most ...

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 ...

Evaluating a spectrum of states for their voter removal practices related to an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges. Purges played a part in more than 19 million voters being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...