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In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter rolls, and share commonsense policy solutions to fix it. 

How stark racial disparities have long pervaded our financial services system, fueling and entrenching inequality, and why public banks are a transformative, equitable alternative.

Ending birthright citizenship would deprive millions of Americans of their foundational right to a representative government and would fundamentally alter and degrade the democratic equality that all citizens enjoy.

Dēmos joins 22 civil rights organizations in condemning President Trump’s memorandum and calling for urgent action to defend the rule of law.

Tax Code Should Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Mobility

U.S. Tax Code Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups that have historically faced greater hurdles in voting.

Lowering the corporate tax rate will cost the country at least $522 billion over 10 years, money that should be invested in public goods that benefit us all, not further enriching the already wealthy.

Today, congressional Republicans are pushing tax reform proposals that would cost the country over $5 trillion and would likely widen the racial wealth gap and slow economic growth.

In a fair tax system, everyone pays their fair share, no one pays more than they can afford, and the government raises enough money to fund public goods that benefit us all, like education, housing, transportation, and health care. But the current tax code is inequitable.