Home Insights & Research Insights & Research Dive deeper into the issues with our expert research and analyses. Featured Insights Policy & Data Brief 2025 NELP Policy and Advocacy Agenda Report Raises from Coast to Coast in 2025 Policy & Data Brief Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections Report Desegregating Opportunity: Why Uprooting Occupational Segregation is Critical to Building A Good-Jobs Economy Search Filters Topic Type Language Series Date Fact Sheet Why Workers Need Real Portable Benefits Portable benefits help empower workers, but app corporations are co-opting the term for corporate programs are neither portable nor benefits. March 24, 2025 Worker Voices Shernice Mundell, Former Federal Employee Shernice is among the thousands of federal workers abruptly terminated by the Trump administration. March 21, 2025 Testimony In Opposition to a Bill to Cut Tipped Workers’ Wage in Colorado Localities On February 20, 2025, Yannet Lathrop testified before a Colorado General Assembly committee to oppose a bill to slash tipped workers' base wage. February 20, 2025 Comments & Letters Letter to Michigan Gov. Whitmer on Efforts to Lower Tipped Workers’ Wages A bill before the governor would cut the wages of nearly 139,000 tipped workers in Michigan. February 18, 2025 Fact Sheet Why New York City Needs a Higher City Minimum Wage New York City's cost of living surpasses the state's minimum wage. February 12, 2025 Report Below the Floor: Court-Ordered Community Service Lacks Labor Standards This is part two of a series uncovering coerced labor in community service programs as operated via the criminal legal system. January 30, 2025 Amicus Brief NELP, and Partners, File Amicus Brief Defending Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections for Homecare Workers NELP amicus brief defends employment protections for homecare workers. January 22, 2025 Testimony Providing Unemployment Benefits to Striking Workers is a Step Forward for Washington Amy M. Traub testified before the Washington State Senate Labor & Commerce Committee, in favor of SB 5041 which would provide UI benefits to striking workers. January 21, 2025 Testimony In Opposition of Senate Bill 123: Reducing Unemployment Insurance Benefits Harms Indiana’s Workers and Economy Testimony in opposition to Senate Bill 123, which would significantly reduce the maximum duration of workers’ unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. January 15, 2025 Comments & Letters Comment to OMB in Response to 89 FR 239 Regarding Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program Evaluation This comment gives feedback for OMB on the practical utility of a proposed Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Implementation Evaluation. January 13, 2025
Policy & Data Brief Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections
Report Desegregating Opportunity: Why Uprooting Occupational Segregation is Critical to Building A Good-Jobs Economy
Fact Sheet Why Workers Need Real Portable Benefits Portable benefits help empower workers, but app corporations are co-opting the term for corporate programs are neither portable nor benefits. March 24, 2025
Worker Voices Shernice Mundell, Former Federal Employee Shernice is among the thousands of federal workers abruptly terminated by the Trump administration. March 21, 2025
Testimony In Opposition to a Bill to Cut Tipped Workers’ Wage in Colorado Localities On February 20, 2025, Yannet Lathrop testified before a Colorado General Assembly committee to oppose a bill to slash tipped workers' base wage. February 20, 2025
Comments & Letters Letter to Michigan Gov. Whitmer on Efforts to Lower Tipped Workers’ Wages A bill before the governor would cut the wages of nearly 139,000 tipped workers in Michigan. February 18, 2025
Fact Sheet Why New York City Needs a Higher City Minimum Wage New York City's cost of living surpasses the state's minimum wage. February 12, 2025
Report Below the Floor: Court-Ordered Community Service Lacks Labor Standards This is part two of a series uncovering coerced labor in community service programs as operated via the criminal legal system. January 30, 2025
Amicus Brief NELP, and Partners, File Amicus Brief Defending Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections for Homecare Workers NELP amicus brief defends employment protections for homecare workers. January 22, 2025
Testimony Providing Unemployment Benefits to Striking Workers is a Step Forward for Washington Amy M. Traub testified before the Washington State Senate Labor & Commerce Committee, in favor of SB 5041 which would provide UI benefits to striking workers. January 21, 2025
Testimony In Opposition of Senate Bill 123: Reducing Unemployment Insurance Benefits Harms Indiana’s Workers and Economy Testimony in opposition to Senate Bill 123, which would significantly reduce the maximum duration of workers’ unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. January 15, 2025
Comments & Letters Comment to OMB in Response to 89 FR 239 Regarding Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program Evaluation This comment gives feedback for OMB on the practical utility of a proposed Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Implementation Evaluation. January 13, 2025
