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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
Blog Meeting This Moment with Focus and Resolve This is a moment that calls for steadiness, clarity, and resolve—and we are committed to meeting it. April 14, 2026
News Release New Trump Independent Contractor Rule Will Weaken Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections for Millions of Working People This rule will have profound real-world consequences for working people. February 26, 2026
Press Clips New York Times: Minimum Wage Rises in Some States as Workers Struggle With Basic Costs NELP's Yannet Lathrop explains how raising the minimum wage helps address the affordability crisis. January 8, 2026
Press Clips Law 360: Mamdani Expected to Shift NYC Wage Policies NELP's Paul Sonn discusses how Mayor Mamdani can strengthen workers' rights in NYC. January 7, 2026
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 Capital & Main: Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals. December 4, 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
