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This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...
"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...
Dēmos president Taifa Smith Butler released the following statement following President Trump’s signing of the budget reconciliation bill: “Let’s be clear: this bill will have a catastrophic impact on ...
DURHAM, N.C. - Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Dēmos, a national nonprofit public policy organization, ...
The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.
Key Findings The notion that all citizens have a voice in our country’s governance is at the center of the American ideal of democracy. Yet the role of corporate and private money in our political ...
The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public.
What is GDP and How Is It Used? GDP measures the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located within the U.S. during a given time period. 1 It was developed in the 1930s as a ...
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 ...
Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism Even before the global pandemic drastically increased reliance on communications technology for working, learning, shopping, and socializing at a distance, ...
MYTH: Expansion will undermine the Court’s legitimacy and politicize the institution. Public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court is already deeply undermined. More than 2 decades of divisive decisions ...
Here is why Bill Clinton’s simply wrong. The 2008 financial crisis was no accident. It was the result of a decades-long deregulation effort, lobbied for by the financial industry and executed by our ...