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Grassroots organizers in Texas offer a blueprint for cementing equity into local recovery efforts.

"TOP’s success reflects what’s possible when people of color organize around what matters most to them and advocate for a seat at the table."

Organizers from the Texas Organizing Project (TOP) have been working to change the balance of power in the county to ensure a more equitable distribution of disaster funding, so that the people most impacted by climate change have the most say in how that funding is spent. 

This recent wave of organizing is a direct response to corporate consolidation of power that has harmed Black and brown workers across the country.

Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Spending on our collective well-being helps people keep a roof over their heads, feed their families, and help grow our overall economy.

The resumption of student loan payments after a three-year break, is likely to deliver a blow to American economic growth, according to economists, in a move that could harm many beyond borrowers alone.

Our environment, healthcare, and labor protections are in the far-right's crosshairs.

NEW YORK – On the eve of the release of new GDP numbers, Demos is publishing a new report challenging the dominance of GDP in the nation’s economic and policy debates.  Beyond GDP: New Measures for A New Economy illuminates the limits of a measurement that shows economic growth, as the 2011 numbers will likely indicate, against the backdrop of an ongoing national economic crisis.