Tamara Draut is the Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos, a national think tank headquartered in New York City, and is the author of Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America and Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead. Draut's research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun Times, theBaltimore Sun, the Des Moines Register, The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, and many others.