Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know 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 Washington Post: Labor Department Social Media Campaign Depicts a White Male Workforce The white supremacist imagery used in the DOL's campaign goes far beyond dog whistles. November 7, 2025 News Release Critical Jobs Data Delayed a Second Month Due to Government Shutdown: Corporate Layoffs Underscore Need to Strengthen Unemployment Insurance In states across the country, unemployment insurance systems are not equipped to adequately support newly laid off workers. November 7, 2025 Press Clips AP: Furloughed Federal Workers Face Delays Getting Unemployment Pay During Shutdown Around 26,000 federal workers filed initial claims for unemployment from Sept. 28 through Oct. 18, according to the DOL. November 1, 2025 Blog Defending Worker Safety: Responding to OSHA and MSHA’s Dangerous Rollbacks OSHA and MSHA announced a set of wide-ranging rollbacks to long-standing worker protections. October 24, 2025 Blog Advocacy in Action: Helping App-Based Workers Hold Corporations Accountable NELP is working with worker groups and policy makers to hold app-based corporations accountable. October 23, 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 CNN: ‘I Don’t Know How I’m Going to Feed My Kids’: Shutdown Hits Federal Contractors Hard The shutdown threatens the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of federal government contractors. October 7, 2025 News Release EEOC and Labor Solicitor Confirmations Advance Trump’s Anti-Worker Agenda We call for strict congressional oversight over the EEOC and Labor Department. October 7, 2025 Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know What federal workers and contractors need to know to help support themselves during the government shutdown. October 3, 2025 News Release Government Shutdown Delays September Jobs Report: Decision-Makers Blindfolded Without Reliable Economic Data Without this important data, decision-makers will not be able to monitor the impacts of the Trump administration’s anti-worker policy choices. October 3, 2025
Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know
Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
Press Clips Washington Post: Labor Department Social Media Campaign Depicts a White Male Workforce The white supremacist imagery used in the DOL's campaign goes far beyond dog whistles. November 7, 2025
News Release Critical Jobs Data Delayed a Second Month Due to Government Shutdown: Corporate Layoffs Underscore Need to Strengthen Unemployment Insurance In states across the country, unemployment insurance systems are not equipped to adequately support newly laid off workers. November 7, 2025
Press Clips AP: Furloughed Federal Workers Face Delays Getting Unemployment Pay During Shutdown Around 26,000 federal workers filed initial claims for unemployment from Sept. 28 through Oct. 18, according to the DOL. November 1, 2025
Blog Defending Worker Safety: Responding to OSHA and MSHA’s Dangerous Rollbacks OSHA and MSHA announced a set of wide-ranging rollbacks to long-standing worker protections. October 24, 2025
Blog Advocacy in Action: Helping App-Based Workers Hold Corporations Accountable NELP is working with worker groups and policy makers to hold app-based corporations accountable. October 23, 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 CNN: ‘I Don’t Know How I’m Going to Feed My Kids’: Shutdown Hits Federal Contractors Hard The shutdown threatens the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of federal government contractors. October 7, 2025
News Release EEOC and Labor Solicitor Confirmations Advance Trump’s Anti-Worker Agenda We call for strict congressional oversight over the EEOC and Labor Department. October 7, 2025
Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know What federal workers and contractors need to know to help support themselves during the government shutdown. October 3, 2025
News Release Government Shutdown Delays September Jobs Report: Decision-Makers Blindfolded Without Reliable Economic Data Without this important data, decision-makers will not be able to monitor the impacts of the Trump administration’s anti-worker policy choices. October 3, 2025
