New York, NY - With the House of Representatives poised to vote on H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act, Amy Traub, Associate Director, Policy and Research at Demos, issued the following statement:
New York, NY - Following today’s testimony by Former FBI Director James Comey on his interactions with President Trump, Heather McGhee, President of the New York-based public policy think tank Demos, issued the following statement:
We are not paying close enough attention to this poisonous phenomenon, which is upending longstanding norms and changing the very nature of our society.
The more Americans that are working, the healthier our economy. Policymakers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve are supposed to strive to achieve maximum employment. The governors of the Federal Reserve, however, have begun to raise interest rates to put the brakes on the U.S. economy
What happened in 2016? In a recent Monkey Cage piece, I discussed the research Demos is performing with political scientists Bernard Fraga, Brian Schaffner and Jesse Rhodes on how depressed turnout contributed to Trump’s electoral college victory. However, the piece doesn’t discuss what caused that
The nation is experiencing a crisis of care. Across the country, parents are trapped in an economic bind without paid leave or affordable child care, even as older Americans and people with disabilities contend with their own unmet needs for care. At the same time, we face a desperate need for good
About a year ago this month, Trump boasted—in an effort to distinguish himself from his Republican running mates and all GOP candidates before him—that he had no intention of making cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
