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 ...

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

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

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dēmos President ...

In the second piece of the series, Dēmos co-founder David Callahan takes us back to the late 1990s—a moment that appeared ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...