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The Disparate Impact standard is critical to continued and enhanced opportunity to access fair credit, housing, and homeownership. Demos strongly opposes efforts to undermine this longstanding enforcement tool.

This Demos Explainer explores the tension between political support for deficit reduction versus job creation and economic security policies. 

Unions were instrumental in creating the American middle class, and today they continue to empower millions of Americans to bargain for wages and benefits that are capable of sustaining a middle-class standard of living.

How Walmart has wielded its market power to change the face of American industry and lower labor standards in the retail sector.

Why better measures of government output can help us grasp potentially damaging tradeoffs between fiscal austerity and collective needs.

Public-sector jobs in Massachusetts are more likely than private-sector jobs to be good jobs that provide a family-supporting income and wealth-building benefits. They need to be preserved.

26 state policies for a race-forward, populist agenda to empower all Americans.

Most states have very far to go in making their selective public institutions representative, and thus truly public.

Advocates and policymakers are frequently asked how they plan to pay for progressive policy investments. This memo provides guidance on how to respond.

This report presents findings on the use of public transit by people of color and on the potential jobs benefits that people of color can gain from investments in public transit.

How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.

How and why two types of theft—wage theft and shoplifting—are treated so differently.

How America’s Big-Box Retailers Turn Their Economic Power into Political Influence

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

Due to disinvestment, a lack of grant aid, and the rising cost of living, Arizona’s students face a steep hill in paying for college.

​​​​​Big companies are using data to preserve the power imbalance that keeps them rich. This economic model is rooted in chattel slavery and relies on the extraction and commodification of data.

The Executive Order on Racial Equity represents a firm commitment by the Biden Administration to champion racial equity and to advance equitable practices in data collection and data provision.

Written testimony of Demos Associate Director of Policy and Research, Amy Traub before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services

Financialization is a major driver of growing inequality and undermines key sources of growth and job creation.

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.