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Benjamin R. Barber

Former fellow

Michael Lipsky

Richard Brodsky

Former Senior Fellow

Ben Peck

Catherine Ruetschlin

Fellow

Wallace C. Turbeville

Former Senior Fellow
Wallace Turbeville

Mark Huelsman

Former Associate Director, Policy & Research

Sean McElwee

Former Policy Analyst

Tamara Draut

Nomi Prins

Former Distinguished Senior Fellow

Heather C. McGhee

Trustee Emeritus
Heather McGhee

Heather is a Trustee Emeritus on the Demos Board and author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

David Callahan

Port Trucking Down the Low Road: A Sad Story of Deregulation

Part of a Demos series of reports on deregulation showing that often the most significant impact is on the quality and reliability of work — in this case, on port trucking.
Research

Highlights of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

How the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will bring greater security to American consumers, investors and Main Street businesses.
Research
Heather C. McGhee
Caleb Gibson

No Recourse: Putting an End to Bankruptcy’s Student Loan Exception

Student loans are treated differently than almost every other form of debt incurred by American households. 
Research

Beyond GDP: New Measures For A New Economy

For decades, GDP has enjoyed supreme status as the predominant benchmark of our economic and social progress. In reality, GDP obscures or ignores essential aspects of Americans’ economic and social welfare, as well as important social and environmental dimensions of our national welfare and future well-being.
Research
Lew Daly
Stephen Posner

The Failure of the 401(k): How Individual Retirement Plans are a Costly Gamble for American Workers

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.
Research
Robert Hiltonsmith

Retirements at Risk from Widespread Abuse of High-Risk Derivatives, Finds New Study by Demos & The Nation Institute

New York, NY – 'Shadow Market' investment products have come under scrutiny following the banking meltdown, but they continue to be aggressively marketed to clients who can least afford the potentially catastrophic losses. Millions of American seniors could see their golden years turn bleak if the poorly regulated derivatives underpinning their investment plans implode, according to "How Safe Are Your Savings? How Complex Derivative Products Imperil Seniors' Retirement Security."
Press release

The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine The Future Middle Class

A look at state disinvestment in public higher education
Research
John Quinterno

Putting Maine Money to Work for Maine

How Maine can use deposits of state tax revenue to tilt the economic playing field back toward Main Street businesses, our community banks, and long-term job growth. 
Research
Heather C. McGhee
Jason Judd