In May, Dēmos held a national convening of financial justice leaders to reimagine our financial systems and build community ...

No metric more powerfully captures the persistence and growth of economic inequality along racial and ethnic lines than the racial wealth gap.

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

Yet, despite lower rates of college completion, young Black households (ages 25-40) are far more likely to have student debt. Over half (54.4%) of all young Black households have student debt, ...

Over the last ten years, a growing number of cities and states passed laws limiting the use of credit checks in hiring, promotion, and firing. Lawmakers are motivated by a number of well-founded ...

This report examines how state disinvestment in public higher education over the past two decades has shifted costs to students and their families. Such disinvestment has occurred alongside rapidly ...

Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city. 1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

Corporations and unions face very different rules and requirements for their political spending. Labor unions must publicly disclose their political spending and, in some instances, face restrictions ...

Evaluating ten states across a spectrum of voter removal practices on an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges.

This case study highlights how New Economy Project and the Public Bank NYC coalition are pressing for a public bank for New York City, as part of a broader vision for economic and racial justice.