"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...

"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...

In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter ...

DURHAM, N.C. - Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Dēmos, a national nonprofit public policy organization, ...

We're celebrating 25 years of work to advance a bold vision for a just and inclusive democracy and economy that reflects a growing and diversifying nation. Read Taifa Smith Butler's reflection on ...

The new working class is more racially diverse than it was decades ago, with more than 41 percent comprising African Americans (13 percent), Latinos (22 percent), and Asian Americans (4 percent). It’s ...

The median white adult who attended college has 7.2 times more wealth than the median black adult who attended college and 3.9 times more wealth than the median Latino adult who attended college.

MYTH: Instead of expanding the Supreme Court, we should focus on lower court expansion. It is critically important to expand the lower courts to bring their capacity in line with current caseloads and ...

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 ...

Click to Enlarge And yet, we find that many selective public institutions—the colleges that receive the most public and private resources within a state, whose alumni often become titans of industry ...

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 ...