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“If you’re a college and you’re offering a very low level of prospective debt to students, that means nothing if the people who overall have more unmet financial need, or are more likely to have to borrow, can’t get into your institution,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank.

Rankings can also subtly push colleges away from spending on financial aid for needy students and, instead, toward things rewarded by the rankings, like small faculty-to-student ratios, Huelsman said. [...]

The Congressional Black Caucus budget should be implemented because it calls for racial equity in future infrastructure and investments; improving public transit infrastructure, noting that people of color are heavy users of it; and school infrastructure, saying that modernized buildings held reduce achievements gaps.

By eliminating employment credit checks, the bill would remove an unfair and discriminatory barrier to economic mobility and security.

Some, like Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank, say the rankings’ incentives push colleges to take steps that often come at the expense of educating a wider swath of qualified students.

NEW YORK, NY – Ahead of the second Pence-Kobach Commission meeting today, Demos Vice President of External Affairs Tori O'Neal-McElrath released the following statement:

Your personal data was very likely stolen by hackers this summer—yet Congress wants less oversight of the company that failed to keep our private information safe.

As researchers Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel explained for Vox, racial attitudes are a very strong predictor for beliefs about government spending.

September 7, 2017 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, Algernon Austin, an economist at the public policy organization Demos, will join fellow policy experts on the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Budget Taskforce’s panel on the Trump Administration and House Republican Budgets. On the panel, Austin will praise the proposed CBC amendment to the House Republican Budget and call for additional investments in priority infrastructure areas, from lead removal to public transit.

New York, NY – In response to Donald Trump’s reported decision to repeal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) with a 6-month delay, Demos Senior Counsel, Katherine Culliton-González, released the following statement: