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What Walmart Can Do to Raise the Wages of Its Workers

On Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV, Demos Senior Policy Analyst Catherine Ruetschlin discusses Walmart's short-sighted labor practices and what the company can do to raise the wages of its employees. 

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Transforming Child Care: The Case for Sustainable Federal Funding

The private child care market has failed families for decades. Here's why federal funding is the only path to affordable, high-quality care for all.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
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.

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Demos
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A group of three individuals is seated in front of a blue background featuring various business-themed icons like clocks, gears, and an upward-trending graph. They are holding different electronic devices and papers, seemingly waiting for a job interview.

Looking Under the Hood: Rising Long-Term Unemployment

This installment of our Economic Indicator Series examines why long-term unemployment matters, what it reveals about the true health of the labor market, and how persistent disparities in unemployment duration deepen existing racial inequities over time.

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Daniella Zessoules