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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.
Blog
Eliana Golding

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

Policy Briefs
Demos
New Economy Project

Tax Code Should Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Mobility

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

U.S. Tax Code Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
Daniella Zessoules
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A response to the Trump Administration's closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an essential way to safeguard consumers against financial injustice.
Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler
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Image accompanying an opinion article titled 'Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups' by Taifa Butler and Carol Lautier, published by Demos. It shows a crowd of demonstrators sitting closely together, many wearing masks and raising fists in a sign of solidarity.
Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few.
In the media
Taifa Smith Butler
Carol Lautier, Ph.D.

Discover how state and local policies can effectively protect workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. This brief examines approaches to worker protection through federal funding opportunities and provides real-world examples of successful policy implementation by workers and

Policy Briefs
Nick Wertsch

Andy Morrison

Associate Director, New Economy Project
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Dēmos and New Economy Project explore how public banking can expand opportunities for communities of color to build shared generational and community wealth.
Blog
Lydia Casmier Anway
Andy Morrison
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Dēmos releases the Power Scorecard, a groundbreaking state-by-state snapshot of economic, civic, and political conditions that are conducive to building economic and political power for people.
Press release/statement