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Dēmos strongly supports updating federal regulations to restore and extend overtime protections. However, we urge the Department to finalize a stronger rule than the one proposed.

Letter from 31 civil rights, consumer, and community organizations urging the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to issue a recommendation that credit information no longer be used to determine eligibility for, or the cost of, auto or home insurance.

One New York State bill would interrupt the cycle of discrimination that comes with employment credit checks.

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.

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

The Department's proposed "EAP Rule" fails to sufficiently safeguard working people.

Demos’ Race-Class Narrative (RCN) project developed an empirically-tested narrative on race and class that resonates with all working people and offers an alternative to—and neutralizes the use of—dog-whistle racism.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has graded our infrastructure a D+, poor and at risk. Congress must act.

The fast food industry is the main driver of compensation inequality in the most disparate sector of the economy, with a CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2013 of over 1000-to-1.

We don’t only have a jobs deficit in this country. We have a deficit of good jobs. Here's why.