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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
Row of empty voting booths in a school gym

Missing Voters: The Real Threat to Alabama's Democracy

More than 815,000 Alabamians are missing from the electoral process. In this report, Stand Up Mobile, Dēmos, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice examine who's missing, why, and what Alabama must do to fix it.

Research
Beverly Cooper
Dustin Tyler Broughton
Keshia Morris Desir
Jens Manuel Krogstad
Lucy Krueger
Sarah Ovaska

Accelerating the Vote: How States Are Improving Motor-Voter Registration Under the National Voter Registration Act

This report assesses the impact of better Motor Voter compliance on voter registration rates and shares model procedures that state motor vehicle departments should consider. 

Research
Stuart Naifeh

Demos Signs Letter Sent to Secretaries of State Regarding Pence Kobach Commission Data Request

Dear Secretary of State:
Testimony and Public Comment

Public Funding for Electoral Campaigns

How 27 states, counties, and municipalities empower small donors and curb the power of big money in politics

Research
Juhem Navarro-Rivera
Emmanuel Caicedo

Centering Marginalized Communities: A Framework for Intersectional Money in Politics Events

All money in politics events should be planned in a way that elevates the most marginalized voices.

Research
Jasmine Gomez
Allie Boldt

Demos calls on Congress to support and enact “Jobs and Infrastructure” legislation

The American Society of Civil Engineers has graded our infrastructure a D+, poor and at risk. Congress must act.

Testimony and Public Comment
Connie M. Razza

The Steal: The Urgent Need to Combat Wage Theft in Retail

How and why two types of theft—wage theft and shoplifting—are treated so differently.

Research
Amy Traub

Demos Joins Letter to Congress to Oppose President Trump's $4.5 billion Request for Mass Deportation Agenda

Dear Chairman Cochran, Vice Chairman Leahy, Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member Lowey:
Testimony and Public Comment
National and State Organizations

Demos Joins 191 Other Organizations in Opposing Trump’s Mass Deportation Act (H.R. 2431)

Dear Member of the Judiciary Committee:
Testimony and Public Comment

National Organizations Condemn Governor Abbott for Signing Senate Bill 4

Dear Governor Abbott, We the undersigned faith, labor, civil rights and social justice organizations, which represent a wide cross section of America’s diverse communities, strongly condemn your decision to sign into law the unconstitutional, racist and anti-immigrant Senate Bill 4. As Governor of
Testimony and Public Comment

Letter to Governor Greg Abbott condemning Texas immigration law

Dear Governor Abbott: On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the undersigned national civil and human rights organizations, we write to express our strong disappointment over the enactment of S.B. 4, a bill that threatens to drastically and unwisely expand the
Testimony and Public Comment