Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News News Release Minimum Wage Increases Coming in 2026 as Nationwide Affordability Crisis Deepens Blog Defending Worker Safety: Responding to OSHA and MSHA’s Dangerous Rollbacks Press Clips The American Prospect: How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away Search Filters Topic Type Series Date Press Clips The Guardian: Florida Workers with Criminal Records Trapped by Temp Agencies, Report Finds Former prisoners feel "disposable" after being driven to accept jobs that often pay lower wages and have no benefits. November 18, 2025 Press Clips Dayton Daily News: Should Private Employers Be Allowed to Ask about Criminal Backgrounds? Dayton Rep Proposes ‘Banning the Box’ Local lawmaker wants to take Ohio’s public sector ban-the-box policy to the private sector. September 11, 2025 News Release Dismissal of Sheetz Case is a Shameful Abdication of EEOC’s Mission to Protect Workers The EEOC is abdicating its important role in protecting the civil rights of workers with records. June 7, 2025 Press Clips CNN: How a Criminal Record Affects Your Chances of Being Hired NELP's Beth Avery spoke to CNN about the limited employment protections for workers with records. June 28, 2024 Blog Gov. Newsom’s Wrong Decision to Carve Out Incarcerated Workers from Heat Standards California’s exemption of incarcerated workers from new workplace heat protections continues a pattern of cruel exclusions built on a foundation of slavery. April 24, 2024 Blog People with Records Have Fought Hard to ‘Ban the Box’ Today, 37 states and nearly 200 cities and counties across the country have adopted some form of fair chance policy. April 23, 2024 Press Clips Open to Debate: Ban the Box: Should We Banish the Criminal History Check Box from Job Applications? NELP's Beth Avery argued in support of ban-the-box policies on this public radio debate. April 19, 2024 Blog End Forced Labor and De Facto Slavery in Prisons It is long past time for this nation to truly eliminate forced labor and de facto slavery for incarcerated workers. June 26, 2023 Press Clips HR Dive: California bill would ban most criminal background checks As of 2021, 37 states and more than 150 cities and counties have adopted ban-the-box laws. April 4, 2023 Blog Hustling Against Criminalization and Its Employment Black women, Black femmes, and Black queers in New Orleans hustle as a culture of resistance. April 3, 2023
Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
Press Clips The Guardian: Florida Workers with Criminal Records Trapped by Temp Agencies, Report Finds Former prisoners feel "disposable" after being driven to accept jobs that often pay lower wages and have no benefits. November 18, 2025
Press Clips Dayton Daily News: Should Private Employers Be Allowed to Ask about Criminal Backgrounds? Dayton Rep Proposes ‘Banning the Box’ Local lawmaker wants to take Ohio’s public sector ban-the-box policy to the private sector. September 11, 2025
News Release Dismissal of Sheetz Case is a Shameful Abdication of EEOC’s Mission to Protect Workers The EEOC is abdicating its important role in protecting the civil rights of workers with records. June 7, 2025
Press Clips CNN: How a Criminal Record Affects Your Chances of Being Hired NELP's Beth Avery spoke to CNN about the limited employment protections for workers with records. June 28, 2024
Blog Gov. Newsom’s Wrong Decision to Carve Out Incarcerated Workers from Heat Standards California’s exemption of incarcerated workers from new workplace heat protections continues a pattern of cruel exclusions built on a foundation of slavery. April 24, 2024
Blog People with Records Have Fought Hard to ‘Ban the Box’ Today, 37 states and nearly 200 cities and counties across the country have adopted some form of fair chance policy. April 23, 2024
Press Clips Open to Debate: Ban the Box: Should We Banish the Criminal History Check Box from Job Applications? NELP's Beth Avery argued in support of ban-the-box policies on this public radio debate. April 19, 2024
Blog End Forced Labor and De Facto Slavery in Prisons It is long past time for this nation to truly eliminate forced labor and de facto slavery for incarcerated workers. June 26, 2023
Press Clips HR Dive: California bill would ban most criminal background checks As of 2021, 37 states and more than 150 cities and counties have adopted ban-the-box laws. April 4, 2023
Blog Hustling Against Criminalization and Its Employment Black women, Black femmes, and Black queers in New Orleans hustle as a culture of resistance. April 3, 2023
