How Our Tax Dollars Are Funding Low-Wage Work and Fueling Inequality

Young adults are in a critical period of change and choices, as they confront the decisions that will pave the way to their futures. But the generation coming into its own in the aftermath of the Great Recession faces challenges that threaten to undermine even the best laid plans.

How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy

How Walmart has wielded its market power to change the face of American industry and lower labor standards in the retail sector.

Why over a lifetime, 401k fees can cost a median-income two-earner family nearly $155,000 and consume nearly one-third of their investment returns.

Strategies For Turning Bad Jobs Into Quality Employment

While GDP has been steadily increasing, indicating a growing economy, other metrics of progress show a very different picture.

A picture of the current state of the private retirement system, why this picture bodes ill for the future of retirement in the country, and why that system needs reform.

This Explainer explores how the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used in measuring our economic growth and whether alternative measures are also needed to provide a more comprehensive outlook of economic progress.  

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