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Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
Press Clips Yahoo Finance: Millions of Workers Will Get a Raise Soon as New Minimum Wage Laws Kick In On January 1, minimum wage rates will climb in 19 states and 49 cities and counties across the U.S. December 13, 2025
Press Clips CBS News: Workers Across the U.S. Are Set for Minimum Wage Increases in 2026. Here’s Where. NELP's Tsedeye Gebreselassie explains how affordability is about prices AND wages. December 8, 2025
Press Clips Stateline: Dozens of Cities, States Hiking Minimum Wages in 2026 Amid Federal Inaction The rate will hit $15 per hour in dozens of localities, though the federal minimum wage remains $7.25 per hour. December 3, 2025
News Release Minimum Wage Increases Coming in 2026 as Nationwide Affordability Crisis Deepens 68 localities and states will raise minimum wages on Jan. 1, with 26 more lifting pay later in 2026. December 3, 2025
Press Clips Truthout: Trump’s Department of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers Families and workers are waiting to hear whether a rule killing minimum wage and overtime protections will take effect. October 16, 2025
Press Clips City & State NY: The $30/hour McDonald’s Job Isn’t as Far-Fetched as it Sounds (Opinion) The spread of cities’ minimum wage laws around U.S. lends credibility to Zohran Mamdani’s promise of $30/hour for NYC by 2030. September 26, 2025
Press Clips Truthout: State GOP Officials Seize Trump’s ‘War on Crime’ to Disempower Blue Cities GOP officials have long sought to erode Democratic-led cities’ autonomy on wage rates, abortion access, LGBTQ rights, and more. September 25, 2025
Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away The Trump Administration is trying to gut employment rights for home care workers through the federal rulemaking process. August 29, 2025
News Release In Anti-Democratic Move, the D.C. Council Undermines the Will of D.C. Voters by Rescinding Voter-Approved Initiative 82 The D.C. Council’s vote to repeal Initiative 82 is a betrayal of the will of voters who overwhelmingly voted to phase out the subminimum tipped wage in the District. July 29, 2025
Press Clips AP: Trump’s Labor Department Proposes More Than 60 Rule Changes in a Push to Deregulate Workplaces NELP's Judy Conti voiced opposition to the Labor Department's move to gut worker protections. July 22, 2025
