Federal agencies spend nearly $760 billion annually on contractors, paid for by our tax dollars. The scale of their spending has the potential to reshape entire industries across our economy—to either create dignified jobs with living wages or reinforce poverty and exploitation.

Behind the GOP's populist facade lies a tax plan that would benefit corporations and wealthy households while cutting programs like Medicaid and SNAP. Read more to learn how their tax plan could actually impact working people.

How stark racial disparities have long pervaded our financial services system, fueling and entrenching inequality, and why public banks are a transformative, equitable alternative.

The administration’s detention and removal of immigrants without free speech, due process, and judicial authority is a crisis for immigrants and a sign that our democracy is in peril.

These proof of citizenship bills capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment and perpetuate outright lies to justify restrictive practices that will make it harder for everyone to vote.

Our Taxes Explained series aims to make tax policy clear and accessible. We want people to know what’s at stake and understand how Trump’s tax cuts are designed specifically to benefit the ultra-rich and corporations.

Trump’s Executive Order would likely exclude communities of color and low-income voters from the ballot and hurt all voters.

Dēmos joins 22 civil rights organizations in condemning President Trump’s memorandum and calling for urgent action to defend the rule of law.

Tax Code Should Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Mobility

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups that have historically faced greater hurdles in voting.