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

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Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub

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. 

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Amy Traub
Robert Hiltonsmith
Tamara Draut

How and why two types of theft—wage theft and shoplifting—are treated so differently.

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Amy Traub

This report was completed in collaboration with the Advancement Project, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Demos, Faith in Action, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League, Race Forward, and UnidosUS. These

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Lake Research Partners

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

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Heather C. McGhee
Lucy Mayo
Angela Park

Both economic and racial justice are core progressive priorities, but too often we discuss them separately. On the contrary, racial and economic harms are intertwined, as are our desired solutions to them. Wealthy elites exploit racial fears to turn working people against each other and government

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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.

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Heather C. McGhee
Sherrilyn Ifill

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

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

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Connie M. Razza

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

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