Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Press Clips The Guardian: Trump Vowed to Champion US Workers—the Reality Has Been a Relentless Assault News Release NELP Condemns Trump’s Firing of Thousands of Federal Workers Blog Clear, Grounded, and Resolved: Rising Above the Chaos of the Trump Administration Blog MLK’s Dream vs. Trump-Era Policies: Advancing Workers’ Rights in 2025 Search Filters Topic Type Series Date Press Clips AP: Fast Food Is a Staple of American Culture, but Some of Its Workers Struggle to Survive Millions of fast-food workers across the U.S.--two-thirds of them women--are scraping to get by. January 25, 2025 Press Clips CNN: From Minimum Wage Increases to Medicare Drug Costs Cap, These New Laws Are Now in Effect January 1 ushered in a host of new laws. January 1, 2025 Press Clips USA Today: Minimum Wage Set to Rise in 23 States Next Year as $15 an Hour, and Beyond, Picks up Steam NELP's Yannet Lathrop explained how raising the minimum wage helps working families. December 9, 2024 News Release Minimum Wage Increases and Worker Protections Coming in 2025 as Worker Momentum Builds 69 cities, counties, and states will raise their wage floors on January 1, with 28 more lifting pay later in 2025. December 9, 2024 News Release NELP on Minimum Wage Ballot Initiatives in 2024 Voters made their voices heard via state minimum wage ballot measures to raise wages and keep pace with rising living costs. November 6, 2024 Press Clips Common Dreams: ‘When We Fight, We Win’: Amazon Boosts Pay as Workers Launch Bid for $25 an Hour NELP's Irene Tung discussed how Amazon lags behind other warehouse employers in pay—even though it can afford to pay workers much more. September 18, 2024 Press Clips New York Times: From Tips to TikTok, Trump Swaps Policies With Aim to Please Voters NELP's Paul Sonn spoke with the Times about Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal. August 9, 2024 News Release On the Michigan Supreme Court Restoring a 2018 Minimum Wage Ballot Initiative Increase The Michigan Supreme Court finds that the 2018 state legislature’s gutting of a popular minimum wage ballot initiative was unconstitutional. July 31, 2024 Press Clips Marketplace: 15 Years Later, the Federal Minimum Wage Is Still $7.25 an Hour That is the longest the minimum wage has gone without getting a raise. July 24, 2024 Press Clips CNBC: A Million More U.S. Workers Can Now Get Overtime Pay: ‘Most Employers Absolutely Do Want to Get This Right’ On July 1, more than a million workers became eligible for overtime pay. July 11, 2024
Press Clips The Guardian: Trump Vowed to Champion US Workers—the Reality Has Been a Relentless Assault
Press Clips AP: Fast Food Is a Staple of American Culture, but Some of Its Workers Struggle to Survive Millions of fast-food workers across the U.S.--two-thirds of them women--are scraping to get by. January 25, 2025
Press Clips CNN: From Minimum Wage Increases to Medicare Drug Costs Cap, These New Laws Are Now in Effect January 1 ushered in a host of new laws. January 1, 2025
Press Clips USA Today: Minimum Wage Set to Rise in 23 States Next Year as $15 an Hour, and Beyond, Picks up Steam NELP's Yannet Lathrop explained how raising the minimum wage helps working families. December 9, 2024
News Release Minimum Wage Increases and Worker Protections Coming in 2025 as Worker Momentum Builds 69 cities, counties, and states will raise their wage floors on January 1, with 28 more lifting pay later in 2025. December 9, 2024
News Release NELP on Minimum Wage Ballot Initiatives in 2024 Voters made their voices heard via state minimum wage ballot measures to raise wages and keep pace with rising living costs. November 6, 2024
Press Clips Common Dreams: ‘When We Fight, We Win’: Amazon Boosts Pay as Workers Launch Bid for $25 an Hour NELP's Irene Tung discussed how Amazon lags behind other warehouse employers in pay—even though it can afford to pay workers much more. September 18, 2024
Press Clips New York Times: From Tips to TikTok, Trump Swaps Policies With Aim to Please Voters NELP's Paul Sonn spoke with the Times about Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal. August 9, 2024
News Release On the Michigan Supreme Court Restoring a 2018 Minimum Wage Ballot Initiative Increase The Michigan Supreme Court finds that the 2018 state legislature’s gutting of a popular minimum wage ballot initiative was unconstitutional. July 31, 2024
Press Clips Marketplace: 15 Years Later, the Federal Minimum Wage Is Still $7.25 an Hour That is the longest the minimum wage has gone without getting a raise. July 24, 2024
Press Clips CNBC: A Million More U.S. Workers Can Now Get Overtime Pay: ‘Most Employers Absolutely Do Want to Get This Right’ On July 1, more than a million workers became eligible for overtime pay. July 11, 2024
