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Formation | 2000 |
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Founder | Charles Halpern, David Callahan, Stephen Heintz |
Type | Think tank |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
President | Taifa Smith Butler |
Revenue | $14,672,624 (2018)[1] |
Website | demos |
Demos is a liberal think tank based in the United States.[2] Founded in 2000, Demos' stated mission is to "power the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy."[3] The organization's president is Taifa Smith Butler, formerly of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.[4]
'If you're making a bet on students by their major, there's a chance of reinforcing existing inequalities,' said Mark Huelsman, a policy analyst at Demos, a liberal think tank.
D.C. politicians are funded by donors who are whiter and wealthier than the constituents they serve, an analysis by the liberal think tank Demos found.
The accompanying chart, which shows voting patterns by income in the 2012 and 2014 elections, illustrates this phenomenon (it was created by Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at Demos, a liberal think tank).