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New Report Exposes Corporate Push to Derail Popular, Progressive Provisions in $3.5T Budget Package
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Policy choices have allowed big companies to continuously use their power to preserve economic and democratic imbalances that maintain their wealth and influence at the expense of everyone else.

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People's Action
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Taifa Smith Butler and Heather McGhee on A Woman's Worth Banner
A commitment to paying Black women what we’re worth isn’t just about money. It’s about making sure we—and our communities—have a seat at the table.
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Taifa Smith Butler
Demos will host “ A Woman’s Worth: The State of Black Women in the Economy,” featuring Demos President Taifa Smith Butler and and former Demos president Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us, in conversation.
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Maiysha Kai
Taifa Smith Butler, joins News NOW on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day to discuss why Black women in America have to work 579 days to earn what a white man does in one year and how companies can work to combat this pay disparity and inequality.
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Our new Economic Democracy agenda is about building economic power and liberation for Black and brown people in the United States.
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Taifa Smith Butler
I am elated to share this first note with you as president of Demos!
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Taifa Smith Butler

Written testimony of Demos Associate Director of Policy and Research, Amy Traub before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services

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Amy Traub
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Big data and algorithms are used to reinforce racist economic power throughout our society, but Black and brown communities are fighting back.
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Amy Traub

​​​​​Big companies are using data to preserve the power imbalance that keeps them rich. This economic model is rooted in chattel slavery and relies on the extraction and commodification of data.

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Yeshimabeit Milner
Amy Traub