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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

Letter to Sec of State of Maine to Cease Actions that Intimidate Voters

From Demos and ACLU.

Testimony and Public Comment
ACLU

Worth Working For

Strategies For Turning Bad Jobs Into Quality Employment

Policy Briefs
Ben Peck
Amy Traub

Demos Urges Confirmation of Richard Cordray to Direct CFPB

"Until the Senate confirms a Director for this popular new regulator, the regulatory playing field will remain uneven."

Testimony and Public Comment
Miles Rapoport

The State Of Massachusetts' Middle Class

Massachusetts’ strong and vibrant middle class didn’t just happen. It was built brick by brick by the hard work of our parents and grandparents and the strength in numbers that came from the unions that represented them.
Policy Briefs

The Crisis Of Economic Insecurity For African-American And Latino Seniors

Even before the full impact of the Great Recession hit, seniors were seeing their retirement security steadily and rapidly destroyed. The elimination of secure pensions for most Americans combined with rising costs of basic expenses has resulted in a dramatic rise in senior economic insecurity.
Research
Jennifer Wheary
Tatjana Meschede
Thomas Shapiro

Schumer Sends Letter to AG Holder on NVRA Enforcement

Sen. Schumer cited Demos' work on the state level, particularly in Ohio, in his letter to the Attorney General.

Testimony and Public Comment
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)

New York State LATFOR: Testimony of Steven Carbo

Demos urges New York State to consider the home addresses of incarcerated persons in reapportionment so that the state can be free of the undemocratic practice of prison-based gerrymandering.

Testimony and Public Comment
Steven Carbó

Letter To The DOJ To Protect Voting Rights In Texas

We, the undersigned -- non-partisan, not-for-profit organizations that work across the country and in Texas to protect the voting rights of African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans -- write to oppose the preclearance of Texas’s Senate Photo Voter Identification law, Bill 14 (“SB14” or “Act”)
Testimony and Public Comment
American Civil Liberties Union
Asian American Justice Center

Help Wanted: America Needs A Better Jobs Plan

A Response to President Obama's Jobs Speech

Policy Briefs
David Callahan
Tamara Draut

The Great Unraveling

A Portrait of the Middle Class

Policy Briefs