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

Chief of Programs at Demos, Angela Hanks on Black employment in this jobs report, wage growth, and the Fed rate hike - what damage that could do to the economy. 

Figure is less than expected in first jobs report since Fed raised interest rate to 22-year high

On the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, we reflect on recent banking failures and the inequities inherent in our current financial system. 

Every inch of progress, from emancipation to voting rights, seemed impossible until grassroots organizing, and advocacy made it inevitable.

“The government has not asked questions of the banks for this latest bailout—protecting the priorities of banks and shareholders. But for the rest of us, not so much.”

Justice Thomas’s egregious actions are part of a long pattern of justices with deep ties to wealthy, politically motivated far-right donors. Congress must act.

It's no coincidence that SCOTUS is choosing a moment when Black and brown workers are building power to threaten labor's gains. 

Angela joins Moms Rising CEO Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to talk worker power and a new generation of unions, and why a multiracial democracy is essential for a thriving economy.

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

Saira Malik, Nuveen CIO, Jason Furman, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and former CEA chair, Tyler Goodspeed, Cato Institute adjunct scholar and former acting CEA chairman, and Angela Hanks, chief of programs at Demos, join CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to react to September's key jobs report.

If we are to make any progress toward a just, inclusive, multiracial economy and democracy, we must shift power toward Black women. 

Demos President Taifa Butler explains what true democracy looks like, and why what we have right now just ain’t it.

Congress still has an opportunity to craft another legislative package and resuscitate crucial elements of the Build Back Better package.

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. 

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

A conversation about what’s standing in the way of progress towards an inclusive democracy and a just economy.

Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that has great relevance for our efforts to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.

The Build Back Better Act would dramatically help working people and families. Now, the passage of this once-in-a-lifetime framework is in the hands of a few legislators who are beholden to corporations and the ultrarich.