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The Republican tax plans are fundamentally about making the super-wealthy wealthier.
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Algernon Austin
After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.
In the media
K. Sabeel Rahman

What misleadingly named “right to work” laws do, how they silence workers’ collective voice, and what their impact has been in states that adopt them.

Research
Amy Traub
New York, NY – Today, Heather McGhee, president of Demos, and Garry Civitello, a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, released the following statement on the premiere of the second season of Upstanders , a Starbucks original series. This season features the story of Heather and Garry’s friendship
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“In our interconnected society, racism — both interpersonal and institutional — is the flaw in the machine that often stymies our democracy and our economy,” McGhee, who’s working on a book on this topic, said. “Racism and bias against full portions of the population color the policy responses of
In the media
German Lopez
Some are heartened to see functioning-for-free college popping up in places like New York and elsewhere. Mark Huelsman senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank and the author of an influential white paper on free college, said he hopes they’ll serve as “laboratories” for
In the media
Jillian Berman
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Many Americans believe that we have achieved black-white racial economic equality, but the data continue to show that we have a long way to go. For centuries, we have had policies to help white families build wealth at the expense of black families.
Blog
Algernon Austin
Another solution — though one that is often a struggle to achieve — is to unionize, which has worked before in industries like teaching, policing, and manufacturing. “If retail workers were able to organize strong unions across the country, there’s no reason retail jobs couldn’t be good jobs like
In the media
Jess Torres
TRANSITIONS -- Arlene Corbin Lewis has joined the D.C. office of the public policy think tank, Demos, as the director of communications. She previously was at the Case Foundation where she was the VP for communications
In the media
Anna Palmer
Even before the Equifax breach, the integrity of credit reports was murky at best. A Federal Trade Commission report found that as many as one in five consumers had a credit error from one of the top reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). But the fundamental problem isn’t data
In the media
Michelle Chen