Once an institution accepts the premise that all people, regardless of their background, have the potential to thrive and contribute to the success of an organization, they can begin to recognize systemic disparities and gaps as flaws to be addressed.

For the last year, we—Demos, Anat Shenker-Osorio (ASO Communications) and Ian Haney López (author of Dog Whistle Politics), —have partnered in an ambitious multi-phase project to build an effective new narrative on race, class, and democracy. The central question we’ve explored is how to engage

How social exclusion blocks Black people from full participation and power in the United States.

National online dial survey results from testing various race, class, and democracy narratives 

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

This report presents findings on the use of public transit by people of color and on the potential jobs benefits that people of color can gain from investments in public transit.

Extreme wage gaps within the fast food industry has made its sector the most unequal in the American economy

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.

African Americans remain disproportionately excluded from corporate and nonprofit board membership in New York City.

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