THE POWER AGENDA - A Framework for Building People Power

Some of this history includes how the American capitalistic system was built on the enslavement of African people and stolen indigenous lives and land; policies that restricted the economic mobility of Black and brown people and women through exclusionary laws; and domestic terror perpetuated by white supremacists on Black and brown Americans trying to exercise their right to vote, work with digni. [...] and underrepresented at the polls and in the corridors of power."6 The Dēmos Power Agenda: A Framework for Building People Power reflects our affirmative To build a representative, multiracial democracy vision for creating a just, inclusive, multiracial and economy for the demos—the people—we democracy and economy by building civic, must advance an agenda focusing on the policies political, and ec. [...] This and structural changes that uplift the wisdom and requires structural reforms that include goals insight of state-based and grassroots leaders and and interventions that restore and expand voting work with policymakers to drive solutions where rights, strengthen worker rights and protections, people can wield full economic and political power and shift power to the people. [...] This results in economic policies that benefit the wealthy elite and worsen the plight of the economically insecure.42 8 THE POWER AGENDA: ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR ALL ECONOMIC MOBILITY FOR ALL $ Our economy fosters deep percent of total income going to income and wealth inequality, Where We Are and the lowest fifth of households.51 making it difficult for working How We Got Here families to reach or. [...] 16 THE POWER AGENDA: AN INCLUSIVE AND EXPANSIVE ELECTORATE A REPRESENTATIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT Corporate and wealthy elites • Creating greater transparency Citizens United decision in 2010 have a stronghold on the and legibility in the cinched the power of wealthy levers of government, creating government’s decision- special interests to set the policy government policies that making proce.