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

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

Along that vein, voters with less than a high school diploma registered via voter registration drives at nearly twice the rate of those with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Registration drive ...

U.S. Tax Code Widens the Racial Wealth DivideKey Takeaways The U.S. tax system privileges wealth accumulation over income earned from work, allowing the ultrarich to exponentially grow their wealth ...

For decades, the racial wealth gap has persisted, with the median white family now holding more than six times the wealth of the median Black family in the U.S. Evidence has long shown that commercial ...

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 ...

The plaintiffs in Loper Bright and Relentless are calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a legal principle known as Chevron deference. Established in the 1984 landmark case Chevron v. NRDC, Chevron ...

Certiorari: An order by which a higher court reviews a lower court’s decision. In this report, certiorari is mainly used in the context of the Supreme Court reviewing a lower court decision. Emergency ...

Our economy is increasingly defined by deep and rising inequality that exists across race, income, power, and wealth. Over the last few decades, corporations have lobbied to weaken laws and policies ...

Eight years ago, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan began, the effects of which linger today. The nation was shocked to see a city fail so spectacularly to meet its most basic responsibility to ...

This case study is part of Demos’ new Economic Democracy project, which asks how poor and working-class people, especially in Black and brown communities, can exercise greater control over the ...