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An Inclusive and Expansive Electorate

 

Dēmos envisions a democracy where all people can fully participate, and immigrants and people impacted by the criminal legal system are explicitly embraced.

America systematically denies the right to vote to millions, creating a democracy that neither includes nor represents all of us. Both the

A Representative and Accountable Government

Dēmos envisions a government that embeds public participation in its decision-making and centers the will and well-being of the people.   

Corporate and wealthy elites have a stronghold on government levers, creating policies that benefit only the few, often at the expense of the public.   

 

 

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Under Attack: Washington's Middle Class and the Jobs Crisis

Washington's strong and vibrant middle class didn't just happen. It was built brick by brick in the decades after World War II-by the hard work of our parents and grandparents and the strength in numbers that came from the unions that represented them. Unions made sure that as our nation's wealth and productivity grew, so too did the income and benefits of the people who worked hard to create that wealth. For decades, our nation's prosperity was widely shared-wages increased and more employers provided their workers with health insurance, pensions, and paid time off. 
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Economic Opportunity Institute

Under Attack: Pennsylvania's Middle Class and the Jobs Crisis

Pennsylvania's middle class is in jeopardy. Once the home of a thriving manufacturing sector, robust union participation, and an example of smart policy choices and a stable middle class, the state has been caught in a downward spiral that mirrors unfortunate national trends. And though Pennsylvania has weathered it better than most, the Great Recession has intensified this spiral in the Keystone State as well. 
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The Keystone Research Center

America's Middle Class & The Jobs Crisis

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.

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Under Attack: Texas' Middle Class and the Jobs Crisis

The American Dream is about working hard in return for decent wages, economic stability, and being able to provide a better life for your kids. But the kinds of jobs that can provide a solid middle-class life in return for hard work are in short supply in Texas. Unemployment is still high, earnings have been stagnant for a decade, and many workers lack health insurance and retirement savings to protect them financially during a serious illness or when they can no longer work.
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Center for Public Policy Priorities

The Fraying of Oregon's Middle Class

The American Dream used to mean that if you put in a hard day's work, you could expect good wages, benefits, and a better life for your kids. Today, the kinds of jobs that can provide a solid middle-class life in return for hard work are in short supply - unemployment is high, earnings are flat, and hard-won benefits are being lost. The future of Oregon's middle class, the backbone of the state's economy for more than half a century, is at risk.    Oregon's strong and vibrant middle class didn't just happen.
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Oregon Center for Public Policy

Bob Herbert Joins Demos as Distinguished Senior Fellow

New York, NY – At its annual Transforming America Awards ceremony last night, the national policy center Demos announced that Bob Herbert, the award-winning former New York Times columnist, will join the organization as a Distinguished Senior Fellow. At Demos, Mr. Herbert will continue his work on behalf of low- and middle-income Americans, providing expertise and writing on economic, social and policy issues.

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The Year In Review: What 2011 Meant For The 99%

It’s been a politically and socially tumultuous year, with far too many setbacks and too few victories on the key challenges facing Americans today. Our Year in Review captures some of those ups and downs, with a focus on the events that defined the boundaries of our political debate and the actions that most impacted the lives of the 99%.

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Tamara Draut
David Callahan

Running in Place: Where The Middle Class and The Poor Meet

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

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Miles Rapoport
Jennifer Wheary

Building Ohio's Future Middle Class: Addressing the Challenges Facing Young Adults

Today's young adults are coming of age in a tough economy, on the heels of 30 years of declining economic opportunity and security for all but the most affluent and most highly educated. These changes are quite evident in Ohio, where the once-mighty manufacturing sector that provided better-than-average jobs in the 1960s and 1970s has eroded, hitting young adults particularly hard.
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Viany Orozco
Amy Hanauer
Nancy K. Cauthen

Young Adult Economic Series, Part 5: And Baby Makes Broke

Most parents with children under the age of 6 are in their late 20s or early 30s, making issues of family leave, child care, and work flexibility of core concern to young adults under the age of 34. Young families across the income spectrum are financially and emotionally stressed by the demands of work and family, yet our nation has failed to address these issues in any systematic or holistic fashion.
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The Price Tag of Being Young: Climate Change and Millennials' Economic Future

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

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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.

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Lew Daly
Stephen Posner

Bullies At The Ballot Box

Protecting The Freedom To Vote Against Wrongful Challenges And Intimidation

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Liz Kennedy
Tova Wang
Anthony Kammer
Stephen Spaulding
Jenny Flanagan

Re-Drawing Lines: A Public Interest Analysis of California's 2006 Redistricting Reform Proposals

In recent years, citizens, the media and political experts have expressed growing concern over redistricting--the process of drawing new district lines to determine which residents will be grouped together when electing representatives. This concern has focused on the steady decline in competitiveness in congressional and legislative districts across the country and the recent efforts of several states to redraw legislative districts mid-decade to gain partisan advantage.
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Steven Carbó

Drawing Lines: A Public Interest Guide To Real Redistricting Reform

A new report by Demos and the Center for Governmental Studies that shows that current (February 2005) legislation and proposed initiatives on redistricting in California all fail to sufficiently address the needs of the public, and suggests clear guidelines for much fairer redistricting.
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Jeannie Wilkinson

Voting Rights Groups Sue Georgia for Neglecting Voting Rights of Low-Income Residents

Plaintiffs had no other choice but to sue to ensure that, going forward, low-income Georgia citizens receive the voter registration opportunities to which they're entitled.

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Court Cash: 2016 Election Money Resulting Directly From Supreme Court Rulings

For four decades, the Supreme Court’s flawed approach to money in politics has gutted common-sense protections against the power of special interests and wealthy individuals. This defies our core democratic values.

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Adam Lioz
Juhem Navarro-Rivera
Sean McElwee

Whose Voice, Whose Choice? The Distorting Influence of the Political Donor Class in Our Big-Money Elections

Who is spending big money on elections, and what do they want?

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Sean McElwee
Brian Schaffner
Jesse Rhodes