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Why President Obama’s Fair Pay and Safe Workplace Executive Order must be implemented under the new administration.

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. 

A number of states have laws demanding citizens produce documentary evidence of citizenship to register to vote. These laws have far-reaching implications for voter participation in our democracy.

The Supreme Court should hold that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

How taxpayers are bankrolling the paychecks of already-wealthy executives instead of supporting more livable wages for American workers struggling to get by.

This report presents new research on the scope of federally-supported employment in the private economy and shows how, using our over 1.3 trillion dollars in federal purchasing, the President of the United States can place over twenty million Americans on a pathway to the middle class.

Executive actions the new administration can take to deliver economic relief and protect workers and families.

An outline of Demos' approach to engaging across climate and equity issues, their respective fields, and partners working in the fields.

If the twin threats to public pensions continue, African American retirees may lose much of the retirement security they’ve gained over the past half-century.

Provide 12 weeks of paid benefits to employees who need time off work to care for a new child, a sick family member, or their own illness. The self-financing trust is funded by premiums paid equally by employers and employees.

New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.

How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities

Support for Growth, Job Creation, and Career Development

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.

This Explainer explores how the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a more comprehensive outlook of economic progress.  

Walmart's raises to $9 an hour in 2015 and then to $10 an hour in 2016 is a positive step forward, but it still falls short of giving workers the wages they need.

In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.

The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.

Arizona’s citizens and its economy are among America’s most vulnerable to the growing adverse impacts of climate change.

Quantifying the cost of climate change to millennials and their children, compared to a world without climate change.