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Misclassifying Port Truck Drivers
Workers and taxpayers pay the price when port trucking companies misclassify their employee drivers as independent contractors. Read More
Tackling the Long-Term Unemployment Crisis
Our issue brief explores what the Obama administration, Congress, and business leaders can do. Read More
Low-Bid Federal Contracting Promotes Poverty-Wage Jobs
NELP's report surveys federally contracted low-wage workers, and shows more than 1 in 3 need public assistance to get by. Read More
Does Your State Have Work-Sharing?
Work-sharing is an unemployment insurance program that prevents layoffs and saves jobs. Federal grants are available to implement work-sharing. Read More
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- 03-07-14 Jobs report offers little relief for two million long-term unemployed cut off from federal jobless aid. Read More
- 03-06-14 NELP's Anastasia Christman on how public transit agencies that buy buses and trains with federal funds can ensure fair pay for contract workers, in The Hill op-ed. Read More
- 03-06-14 Poll: 57 Percent of Business Owners Support $10.10 Minimum Wage Read More
- 03-04-14 NELP: 2 million long-term unemployed now without jobless aid. Read More
- 02-27-14 NELP's Jack Temple on why businesses like the Gap and Costco support raising the minimum wage, in Reuters op-ed. Read More
- 02-19-14 NELP, Change to Win, and LAANE release new report, "The Big Rig Overhaul: Restoring Middle-Class Jobs at America's Ports Through Labor Law Enforcement." Read More
- 02-18-14 NELP responds to Congressional Budget Office report on the impacts of raising the federal minimum wage. Read More
- 02-18-14 NELP's Michelle Rodriguez on the spread of ban-the-box fair hiring policies around the nation, in Huffington Post. Read More
- 02-14-14 NELP and Fiscal Policy Institute release report on why New York State should allow cities and counties to set higher local minimum wages. Read More
- 02-06-14 NELP blasts disgraceful filibuster in Senate of three-month Emergency Unemployment Compensation extension. Read More
