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The U.S. Supreme Court building against a blue sky, overlaid with a map of Louisiana and a chain of "I Voted" sticker footprints being cut by scissors on either side

Voting Rights and Representation in the Aftermath of Louisiana v. Callais

This brief examines what the Supreme Court's Callais decision means for communities of color, what has already changed in its wake, and what reforms — from state voting rights acts to proportional representation — can meet this moment.

Policy Briefs
Angelo Ancheta
Cover of 'Solving the Affordability Crisis' by People's Action and Dēmos: a rising staircase of icons representing groceries, health care, energy, housing, and child care, each topped with dollar bills."

Solving the Affordability Crisis

The affordability crisis is the result of policy choices — and different choices can reverse it. This report from Dēmos and People's Action traces why housing, utilities, food, health care, and child care have become unaffordable, and five structural solutions for building a people-powered, racially just economy.

Policy Briefs
Demos
People's Action
A Black care worker in scrubs reviews a clipboard with an older Black woman seated on a couch. In the background, composite images show caregivers working with children and supporting elderly adults, overlaid with illustrated icons representing justice, economic opportunity, and care.

Empowering Care Workers: The Key to a Better Care Economy

Good care jobs are the foundation of a good care economy. Empowering care workers through better pay, stronger protections, and collective voice would improve care quality, reduce workforce shortages, and advance racial and economic equity.

Policy Briefs
Nick Wertsch

The Credit CARD Act: It's Working

Signed into law on May 22, 2009, the Credit CARD Act has benefited millions of households in ways that directly affect their monthly budgets.

Policy Briefs
Amy Traub

Protecting the Freedom to Vote

The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012

Policy Briefs
Liz Kennedy

Public Offering, Private Wealth

What The Facebook IPO Really Says About America's Economy

Policy Briefs
David Callahan
Jack Temple

Letter Urging Governor Malloy of CT to Sign Disclosure Bill

Demos commends Connecticut for passing one of the strongest campaign-finance disclosure bills in the United States and recommends that the Governor promptly sign the bill into law. This is an important bill that will bring much-needed transparency to financing for political campaigns. 
Testimony and Public Comment
Miles Rapoport

Testimony of Wallace C. Turbeville, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

After seven years as a lawyer specializing in public and private securities offerings, I was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for more than a twelve years and then managed a small advisory firm. I also served as CEO of a firm providing counterparty credit management services in the derivatives
Testimony and Public Comment
Wallace C. Turbeville

Why Occupy Wall Street?

11 ways Wall Street is more than a symbol of inequities in our economy and our democracy

Policy Briefs
David Callahan
Heather C. McGhee

Beyond the Debt-For-Diploma System

10 Ways Student Debt Is Blocking the Economic Mobility of Young Americans

Policy Briefs
Jack Temple
Heather C. McGhee
Tamara Draut

Economic And Environmental Impacts Of Climate Change In Arizona

Arizona’s citizens and its economy are among America’s most vulnerable to the growing adverse impacts of climate change.

Research
Robert Repetto, Ph.D.

Economic And Environmental Impacts Of Climate Change In Virginia

Climate change threatens serious harm to Virginia’s economy, its people and its treasured natural resources.

Research
Robert Repetto, Ph.D.

Climate Change In The States

Authored by Robert Repetto PhD, a Senior Fellow in the United Nations Foundation's climate and energy program, these four policy briefs examine the health, economic and environmental challenges posed by the effects of climate change in four particularly susceptible states. The details of the report
Policy Briefs