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Ways to improve our electoral system and voter registration process.

The key provisions of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that have successfully allowed millions of eligible voters to register. 

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.

Super PACs have fast become a favored tool for wealthy individuals and interests to drown out the voices of average citizens. 

Popular theories for rising tuition like administrative “bloat” and student aid are at most minor contributors to tuition increases. Here's the real causes.

A 50-State Look at Rising College Prices and the New American Student

Americans of all political backgrounds agree: there is way too much corporate money in politics. 

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

Background on one of the landmark pieces of financial reform legislation associated with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The Volcker Rule is a requirement in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 that is sometimes referred to as a “mini-Glass-Steagall.” 

A breakdown of the public policies needed to ensure that all Americans have a chance to move into the middle class and stay there.

The Restore the Vote Amendment Act of 2019 would expand voting rights to eligible incarcerated residents with felony convictions. 

Testimony to Congress on current voter suppression tactics including voter purges, registration barriers, felony disenfranchisement, and prison gerrymandering.

Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

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.

In January 2016, Oregon became the first state in the country to implement Automatic Voter Registration. It was a resounding success.

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.

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