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This report makes the case that we should create jobs for the unemployed directly and immediately in public employment programs that produce useful goods and services for the public’s benefit.

How Last Minute, Just-In-Time Scheduling Practices Are Bad for Workers, Families and Business

Now is the time for citizens, workers, employers, and policymakers to come together once again to rebuild pathways to the middle class, create good jobs with fair pay and decent benefits, and ensure that prosperity is broadly shared for the next generation.

Millions are working hard to move forward, or just to make ends meet, and getting nowhere. This policy agenda can change that reality.

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

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

The dominance of big money in our politics makes it far harder for people of color to exert political power and effectively advocate for their interests as both wealth and power are consolidated by a small, very white, share of the population.

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

A picture of the current state of the private retirement system, why this picture bodes ill for the future of retirement in the country, and why that system needs reform.

NEW: SECOND EDITION. "Retiring in the Red" is part of the Borrowing to Make Ends Meet Briefing Paper Series. Reports an 89% average increase in credit card debt among America's seniors from 1992 to 2001. Key Findings:

This report reveals the extent of credit information “mission creep,” examines troubling shortcomings in the for-profit credit reporting industry, and recommends common sense steps to reform the credit reporting system.

Why over a lifetime, 401k fees can cost a median-income two-earner family nearly $155,000 and consume nearly one-third of their investment returns.

African Americans remain disproportionately excluded from corporate and nonprofit board membership in New York City.

In February and March 2012, Demos surveyed a nationally representative sample of 997 low- and middle-income American households who carried credit card debt for three months or more.

How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy

How Our Tax Dollars Are Funding Low-Wage Work and Fueling Inequality

In the wake of the worst effects of the Great Recession, African Americans, like Americans as a whole, are getting their balance sheets in order and paying down credit card debt. But new research from Demos’ National Survey on Credit Card Debt of Low-and Middle-Income Households finds that African Americans face challenges to their financial security that are unlike those of white households.

Why employment credit checks constitute an illegitimate barrier to employment.

Extreme wage gaps within the fast food industry has made its sector the most unequal in the American economy

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.