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November 1st is Latina Equal Pay Day, marking the date when the typical Latina woman’s wages since January 1, 2017 finally catch up to what the typical white man was paid in calendar year 2017.
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Amy Traub
Miranda Galindo
Current federal policy falls well short of the robust agenda we need to lift up working families of all races, but we know how to change that.
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Adam Lioz
A system of “justice” cannot operate with true legitimacy this way.
In the media
Vijay Das
Naila Awan
Rather than try to dismantle one of the few tools we have to keep this problem from getting worse, this administration should take a more nuanced and comprehensive approach toward making our campuses more reflective of our society, particularly for the most diverse generation of students ever.
In the media
Mark Huelsman
People care about race and class. Policymakers should be speaking to both.
In the media
Ryan C. Brooks
Ruby Cramer
For decades, black unemployment has remained roughly twice the rate of unemployment for white workers, regardless of a job seeker’s level of education. Social exclusion shows us why.
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Amy Traub
Chiraag Bains, the Director of Legal Strategies for Demos, issued the following statement tonight in response to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Trump: “With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s second nominee to the Supreme Court in less than
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Chiraag Bains
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Heather McGhee

Heather C. McGhee

Trustee Emeritus
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Black woman kneeling at a protest
Repeatedly during his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump appealed to black voters by asking, “What do you have to lose?” A year and a half into the Trump administration, we have enough evidence to answer the question definitively: everything. In nearly every major federal agency, the Trump
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Algernon Austin
[T]he public policy organization fights for racial equity, an expanded middle class and shaving the amount of money used in politics. Demos has just released a landmark report exclusively to theGrio explaining its studied view of why the Trump administration is bad for Black people and they have
In the media
Melanie Eversley