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How we can lower student debt while closing the Black-White wealth gap.
Research
November 24, 2015
Mark Huelsman
Tamara Draut
Tatjana Meschede
Lars Dietrich
Thomas Shapiro
Laura Sullivan
From the time a baby is born, American families are trapped between the need to provide care for their children and the necessity of earning income.
Research
December 13, 2016
Amy Traub
Robert Hiltonsmith
Tamara Draut
In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.
Research
June 4, 2014
Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub
Why better measures of government output can help us grasp potentially damaging tradeoffs between fiscal austerity and collective needs.
In 2010 and 2011, Maryland and New York took bold steps to correct the problem known as prison gerrymandering, a problem resulting from the United States Census Bureau’s practice of counting incarcerated individuals as residents of their prison cells rather than their home communities.
Policy Briefs
August 15, 2014
Financialization is a major driver of growing inequality and undermines key sources of growth and job creation.
Research
February 10, 2015
Popular theories for rising tuition like administrative “bloat” and student aid are at most minor contributors to tuition increases. Here's the real causes.
How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.
Research
June 2, 2015
Catherine Ruetschlin
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
As part of an effort to reshape rules around debt and lending to reduce racial wealth inequality, we propose establishing a public credit registry to gradually replace the current for-profit credit reporting system.
Policy Briefs
April 3, 2019
How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis
Policy Briefs
April 26, 2019
The Case for Bold, Equitable Student Loan Cancellation and Reform
The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
Research
May 28, 2019
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research
The suspension of driver’s licenses for unpaid criminal justice fines and fees should be found unconstitutional.
Litigation
May 29, 2019
Demos
National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women
LGB+ Voices in the 2019 Black Census
Research
June 27, 2019
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research
The Supreme Court should hold that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
Research
October 30, 2019
K. Sabeel Rahman
Hollie Russon Gilman
Fully engaging and including Black people of all genders will strengthen the political power of Black communities.
Research
November 21, 2019
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research
Research
December 5, 2019
Hollie Russon Gilman
K. Sabeel Rahman
A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them.
Voter registration has long been weaponized to silence voters. And it’s not by accident.
Policy Briefs
October 7, 2020
Laura Williamson
Amshula K. Jayaram