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Mother’s Day was a couple of weeks ago, but Americans need another day to think about what we owe to moms. May 30th is a less festive occasion: It’s Moms’ Equal Pay Day, a date indicating how far into 2018 mothers have to work to catch up with what fathers were paid back in 2017. In other words
Blog
Amy Traub
New series exposes how social exclusion impacts society in several ways Report comes in the midst of national conversation about causes of and solutions to racial bias
Press release/statement

How social exclusion blocks Black people from full participation and power in the United States.

Research
Connie M. Razza
This is shaping up to be a truly miserable week in Washington. Decisions made in the halls of Congress and the chambers of the Supreme Court are dramatically shifting power away from working Americans and toward bosses and banks. To anyone paying attention, it’s clearer than ever who benefits from
Blog
Amy Traub
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Heather McGhee of Demos issued the following statement regarding the preview of the Starbucks’ anti-bias training:
Press release/statement
Starbucks said the long-term program is being designed and developed with input from researchers, social scientists, employees and other advisers. Those partners include consultancy SY Partners - which worked with Starbucks to reinvent itself after a business crisis spawned by the “Great Recession”
In the media
Lisa Baertlein
For the last year, we—Demos, Anat Shenker-Osorio (ASO Communications) and Ian Haney López (author of Dog Whistle Politics), —have partnered in an ambitious multi-phase project to build an effective new narrative on race, class, and democracy. The central question we’ve explored is how to engage
Research
"I was first fired for my sexual orientation and gender expression at 19."
Blog
Meghan Maury
Amy Traub
Missouri is not updating voter registration information as required by law. We're seeking to change that.
Blog
Naila Awan
Chiraag Bains

This bill unravels important consumer safeguards that protect American consumers and leaves communities of color particularly vulnerable.

Testimony and Public Comment
Amy Traub
Vijay Das