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"People don't live on the same blocks, they don't interact with each other."

Demos' Vice President of Policy and Research Tamara Draut joins Melissa Harris Perry to discuss the importance of college education and the new reality of unlivable working-class wages.

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Public Dollars and Living Wages

Federal agencies spend nearly $760 billion annually on contractors, paid for by our tax dollars. The scale of their spending has the potential to reshape entire industries across our economy—to either create dignified jobs with living wages or reinforce poverty and exploitation.

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Nick Wertsch
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Building Worker Power With Public Funding at the State and Local Levels

Discover how state and local policies can effectively protect workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. This brief examines approaches to worker protection through federal funding opportunities and provides real-world examples of successful policy implementation by workers and communities.

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15 Years and Counting: Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore the Federal Minimum Wage Any Longer

The federal minimum wage’s 86-year history shows us that we used to know how to get this done. 

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Udochi Onwubiko