"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...

"These cuts to lifesaving safety net programs and critical infrastructure, are not meant to improve the lives of everyday ...

In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter ...

DURHAM, N.C. - Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and Dēmos, a national nonprofit public policy organization, ...

The new working class is more racially diverse than it was decades ago, with more than 41 percent comprising African Americans (13 percent), Latinos (22 percent), and Asian Americans (4 percent). It’s ...

This paper is the first in a series of short pieces from Demos concerning the dynamics of social exclusion and the relationship between individual instances of hostility towards people of color in the ...

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 ...

Introduction Today, the typical young person aspiring to go to college in the United States faces a higher education system that is fundamentally different from what previous generations enjoyed. For ...

Click to Enlarge And yet, we find that many selective public institutions—the colleges that receive the most public and private resources within a state, whose alumni often become titans of industry ...

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 ...

Introduction In the summer of 2024, senior citizens residing in a Pennsylvania nursing home joined a growing list of thousands of voters whose registrations are being challenged by activists ahead of ...