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How we can lower student debt while closing the Black-White wealth gap.
Research
November 24, 2015
Mark Huelsman
Tamara Draut
Tatjana Meschede
Lars Dietrich
Thomas Shapiro
Laura Sullivan
From the time a baby is born, American families are trapped between the need to provide care for their children and the necessity of earning income.
Research
December 13, 2016
Amy Traub
Robert Hiltonsmith
Tamara Draut
In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.
Research
June 4, 2014
Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub
Why better measures of government output can help us grasp potentially damaging tradeoffs between fiscal austerity and collective needs.
Financialization is a major driver of growing inequality and undermines key sources of growth and job creation.
Research
February 10, 2015
Popular theories for rising tuition like administrative “bloat” and student aid are at most minor contributors to tuition increases. Here's the real causes.
How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.
Research
June 2, 2015
Catherine Ruetschlin
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad
Demos strongly urges the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw the proposed rule to radically enlarge the list of criteria that will be used to decide whether an immigrant is likely to become a “public charge.”
Testimony and Public Comment
December 7, 2018
"We know this: the super rich and corporations don’t need a tax cut. The 1 percent are doing just fine."
Testimony and Public Comment
December 1, 2017
President Trump should follow the letter of the law and allow the Senate to confirm a new Director of the CFPB.
Testimony and Public Comment
November 27, 2017
Dramatic new public policy initiatives are needed to accomplish two broad interrelated goals: to ensure that all Americans have a chance to move into the middle class and, second, to ensure greater security for those in the middle class.
Testimony and Public Comment
June 6, 2013
Amy Traub
Heather C. McGhee
New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.
Policy Briefs
March 20, 2019
As part of an effort to reshape rules around debt and lending to reduce racial wealth inequality, we propose establishing a public credit registry to gradually replace the current for-profit credit reporting system.
Policy Briefs
April 3, 2019
How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
Policy Briefs
April 15, 2019
Lew Daly
Priya Mulgaonkar
How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis
Policy Briefs
April 26, 2019
The Case for Bold, Equitable Student Loan Cancellation and Reform
The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
Research
May 28, 2019
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research
New York State is in the midst of a housing crisis. Right now, there is a policy platform under consideration that could address the crisis.
Testimony and Public Comment
May 16, 2019
The CCPA is a climate bill, a racial justice bill, a public health bill, and an economic development bill. We need it to be all of these things.
Testimony and Public Comment
May 17, 2019
LGB+ Voices in the 2019 Black Census
Research
June 27, 2019
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research