How the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce.

This report presents new research on the scope of federally-supported employment in the private economy and shows how, using our over 1.3 trillion dollars in federal purchasing, the President of the United States can place over twenty million Americans on a pathway to the middle class.

In 2013, Walmart spent billions repurchasing shares of its own stock. It should have spent it raising wages.

From the time a baby is born, American families are trapped between the need to provide care for their children and the necessity of earning income. 

If the twin threats to public pensions continue, African American retirees may lose much of the retirement security they’ve gained over the past half-century.

Methodology: Demos sponsored an online survey among 1,536 registered voters, conducted June 5 to June 14, 2017. The research included a base sample of registered voters and, for deeper analysis, oversamples of working-class African Americans, working-class Hispanics, working-class white Obama-to

The American Society of Civil Engineers has graded our infrastructure a D+, poor and at risk. Congress must act.

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.

How we work every day to operationalize within our organization the racial equity and inclusion that we seek to advance in our country.

The working class today is much more complex and diverse than the white, male, manufacturing archetype often evoked in popular narratives.