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This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...
"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...
Dēmos president Taifa Smith Butler released the following statement following President Trump’s signing of the budget reconciliation bill: “Let’s be clear: this bill will have a catastrophic impact on ...
Dēmos is a non-profit public policy organization working to build a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy and economy.
The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.
DURHAM, N.C. - Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Dēmos, a national nonprofit public policy organization, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism Even before the global pandemic drastically increased reliance on communications technology for working, learning, shopping, and socializing at a distance, ...
MYTH: Expansion will undermine the Court’s legitimacy and politicize the institution. Public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court is already deeply undermined. More than 2 decades of divisive decisions ...
In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city. 1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...