Menu

Resources

From cutting-edge policy research to illuminating analysis, we bring a racial equity lens to the most pressing issues facing our country. For our latest blog posts and media updates, visit our Media page.

Featured
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
A collage showing a caregiver interacting with two children at a table. In the background, there are faded images of caregivers with elderly patients and a parent and their child. White outline icons of hands encircling a heart are overlayed on a blue and orange gradient background.

Recognizing Care as a Public Good

A stronger economy starts with a stronger care system. Treating care as public infrastructure would benefit care recipients, care workers, and caregivers alike, while strengthening the economy for all of us. 

Policy Briefs
Nick Wertsch
View of the top of the Supreme Court building at a distance

Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara

Dēmos submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Testimony and Public Comment
Demos
The Campaign Legal Center
Common Cause

Ensuring Access to the Ballot for American Indians & Alaska Natives

According to all available data, the voter participation rate of the first Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, is among the lowest of any ethnic group in the country. There are complex historical and cultural reasons that make the issue of voting among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Research
Tova Andrea Wang

Support. Collaborate. Retain: Strategies For Improving The STEM Teaching Crisis

One of the most often-cited reasons for the STEM achievement gap is a lack of skilled and trained STEM teachers. The greatest percentage of under-qualified teachers at the K-12 level is found in STEM disciplines – 40 percent of high school math teachers and 20 percent of science teachers in high
Research
Jennifer Wheary
Meghan Groome
Julia Rankin

The Retirement Savings Drain: Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s

Why over a lifetime, 401k fees can cost a median-income two-earner family nearly $155,000 and consume nearly one-third of their investment returns.

Research
Robert Hiltonsmith

One Last Chance to Avoid Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Kansas

The report is timed to the two-day federal trial that starts tomorrow morning that will redraw Kansas’ legislative districts. If the Court were to adopt the House’s proposed map, Kansas would end up with a dubious distinction: having the nation’s most extreme instance of prison-based gerrymandering

Policy Briefs
Brenda Wright

The Plastic Safety Net: 2012 National Survey on Credit Card Debt of Low-and Middle-Income Households

In February and March 2012, Demos surveyed a nationally representative sample of 997 low- and middle-income American households who carried credit card debt for three months or more.

Research
Amy Traub
Catherine Ruetschlin

The Credit CARD Act: It's Working

Signed into law on May 22, 2009, the Credit CARD Act has benefited millions of households in ways that directly affect their monthly budgets.

Policy Briefs
Amy Traub

Public Offering, Private Wealth

What The Facebook IPO Really Says About America's Economy

Policy Briefs
David Callahan
Jack Temple

Protecting the Freedom to Vote

The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012

Policy Briefs
Liz Kennedy

Letter Urging Governor Malloy of CT to Sign Disclosure Bill

Demos commends Connecticut for passing one of the strongest campaign-finance disclosure bills in the United States and recommends that the Governor promptly sign the bill into law. This is an important bill that will bring much-needed transparency to financing for political campaigns. 
Testimony and Public Comment
Miles Rapoport

Testimony of Wallace C. Turbeville, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

After seven years as a lawyer specializing in public and private securities offerings, I was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for more than a twelve years and then managed a small advisory firm. I also served as CEO of a firm providing counterparty credit management services in the derivatives
Testimony and Public Comment
Wallace C. Turbeville