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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

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.

Got ID? Helping Americans Get Voter Identification

Best-practice recommendations from “Got ID?” programs

Research
Tova Andrea Wang
Common Cause
Lawyer's Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
Fair Elections Legal Network

Comments to the CFPB Regarding Defining Larger Participants in Certain Markets for Consumer Financial Products and Services

Demos welcomes the opportunity to submit comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Notice and Request for Comment concerning the Bureau’s definition of larger consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) that will be subject to the CFPB’s supervision.
Testimony and Public Comment
Amy Traub

El Gran Cambio en Costo: Cómo Desinversiones en la Educación Superior Socavan a la Clase Media del Futuro

La educación superior se ha convertido en un requisito básico para conseguir un trabajo con un salario decente y  para entrar en la clase media.  A la misma vez, esta licenciatura se ha puesto tan cara que no está al alcance de muchos de los jóvenes en Estados Unidos. El costo de ir a una
Policy Briefs
Viany Orozco

Black Board Participation In New York City, 2.0

African Americans remain disproportionately excluded from corporate and nonprofit board membership in New York City.

Research

The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine The Future Middle Class

A look at state disinvestment in public higher education

Research
John Quinterno

Massachusetts Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals

Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the regulatory process.

These dangerous proposals before congress include The Regulations from the Executive in

Policy Briefs
Ben Peck
MASSPIRG

Alaskan Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals

Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the regulatory process.

These dangerous proposals before congress include The Regulations from the Executive in

Policy Briefs
Ben Peck
Alaska PIRG

Ohio Lives At Risk: The Local Impact of Federal “Regulatory Reform” Proposals

Americans’ lives, health and livelihoods would be put at risk if so called “regulatory reform” proposals now being considered by the U.S. Congress were to become law, slowing or stopping the regulatory process.

These dangerous proposals before congress include The Regulations from the Executive in

Policy Briefs
Ben Peck
Ohio PIRG