On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we honor those who strived for that victory by defending its true ...

Trump’s attack on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and, more broadly, on facts, marks another step closer to authoritarianism.

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

Why a return to a debt-free system of public universities and colleges would help revive the promise of affordable higher education regardless of one’s family income.

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

Key Findings The notion that all citizens have a voice in our country’s governance is at the center of the American ideal of democracy. Yet the role of corporate and private money in our political ...

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 ...