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Dēmos envisions an economy where all people can regularly meet their daily needs.
Our economy leaves working families with inadequate pay and unaffordable goods and services, making it difficult to make ends meet. Structural racism in our economic institutions makes economic security even harder for
Dēmos’ Inclusive Democracy Project (IDP) works with grassroots organizations around the country to advance policy change that centers racial equity and creates a more inclusive and effective American democracy.
The IDP was launched in 2015 to support state-based racial and gender justice
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
After working more than 20
Dēmos is a non-profit public policy organization working to build a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy and economy. We work hand in hand to build power with and for Black and brown communities, forging strategic alliances with grassroots and state-based organizations.
For nearly 25 years, Dēmos
The Dēmos Power Agenda Framework is our roadmap towards a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy and economy. To build civic, political, and economic power for all we need structural reforms that restore and expand voting rights, strengthen worker rights and protections and shifts power to the
Dēmos means “the people”, and since our founding in 2000, we have been fighting to ensure that all people in this country are given an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. However, inequality—economic, political and racial—is on the rise. It threatens the promise of America
The Demos policy and research team develops race-forward progressive policy ideas and analysis for policymakers and grassroots organizations fighting for economic, social, and political power.
We analyze the policies, practices, and power dynamics that maintain racial inequality and exclude