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Indeed, the U.S. racial wealth gap remains largely attributable to public policy decisions driven by resegregation. Demos, a progressive think tank, explains this gap as a product of “the continuing impact of redlining on American home ownership to the retreat from desegregation in public education

New York, NY – Today, the Republican-led U.S. Senate voted on strictly partisan lines to approve a new tax plan that will increase taxes on working- and middle-class Americans while lowering taxes on billionaires and wealthy corporations. In response, Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and

"We know this: the super rich and corporations don’t need a tax cut. The 1 percent are doing just fine."

DC Fair Elections Act would reign in the influence of big money in our local elections.

The tax debate undersells the impact of this current debate on working-class communities, and misses part of why the GOP tax plan is so radical.

The Republican tax plans proposed by the House and Senate uphold the status quo fossil fuel economy and threaten the health of communities.

We know the Trump plan is a giveaway to the rich demanded by big donors, because prominent Republicans have been more candid than usual on the topic.

While some fairly valuable tax breaks for students have been kept from the chopping block, the Senate GOP’s tax bill could go a long way toward decimating funding for public colleges and universities, and community colleges in particular.

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” -- Warren Buffet

New York, NY – As legal disputes continue over who will become the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) acting Director, Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos and Demos Action, released the following statement: