New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.

"I think this does pull back the curtain around some things that people intuitively know to be true—like, privilege tends to reproduce itself."

The white, wealthy donor class that fuels Baltimore's elections

The marquee bill, which features improvements to voting, campaign finance, and ethics laws, addresses the deep political, racial, and economic inequalities that plague our democracy.

The study finds that Baltimore’s campaign funds are dominated by developers, businesses, PACs, and other special interests.

The bill would create a federal-state partnership to help students pay for the full costs of attendance without having to take on debt.

Dear Mr. President:

Higher education has long been our nation’s primary lever of upward mobility. As a result, throughout our nation’s history, we have committed to ensuring that all individuals, regardless of cost, would be able to attend college. But that commitment has faltered in the last generation as states

Thank you Chairman Wolf, Chairman Scibak, and Honorable Members of the Committee for this opportunity to present testimony. My name is Amy Traub and I am a senior policy analyst with Dēmos. Dēmos is a public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy

The fast food industry is the main driver of compensation inequality in the most disparate sector of the economy, with a CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2013 of over 1000-to-1.