Policymakers can boost wages, improve affordability, and address public challenges by extending prevailing wage and other pay standards to the private sector.

Federal lawmakers are debating a bill that would let corporate franchisors off the hook when they undermine workers’ rights and leave small franchisees solely liable for labor law violations.

Trump and conservative courts are threatening to end Americans’ right to unionize. Here is how cities and states can prepare if the National Labor Relations Act is struck down or ceases to be enforced...

Research and events from the American Worker Project and others show that working-class families are struggling and want elected officials to focus on rewarding work while also representing their posi...

Advocates say Trump has hurt workers in many ways, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous

The administration has already cut minimum wage protections for hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers and halted plans to require companies to pay disabled workers at least $7.25 per hour;...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is terminating collective bargaining agreements with several key government unions representing its employees.

Working-class and college-educated union women increasingly support Democratic Party presidential candidates, but support is lower among working-class union men.

Oregon’s labor bureau says it will stop prioritizing wage claims based on income by the end of 2025 after a significant funding boost.

Congress has failed workers for decades. Policymakers have not raised the minimum wage in nearly 20 years. They have not passed legislation to fix our nation’s broken labor law, leaving the National L...

Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...

In many states across the South, the public sector is a key driver of economic growth and improvements in most Southerners’ quality of life. The public sector includes workers in federal, state, and l...

Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund and State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Action for a discussion with state lawmakers on how to promote a policy agenda to support the working…

While DOGE made headlines for firing tens of thousands of federal workers, Elon Musk’s departure will not slow down the Trump administration’s efforts to end collective bargaining for more than 1 mill...

Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund and State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Action for a discussion with state lawmakers on how to promote a policy agenda to support the working class...

To learn what keeps workers up at night all one must do is ask them. Just #Listen2Workers.

If the spending bill is passed, an estimated three-quarters of eligible federal workers may be coerced into at-will employment.

StarPlus Energy, the partnership between Stellantis and Samsung SDI, has agreed to recognize the union in representing the 420 workers at the site.

Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a discussion with congressional representatives about how best to promote an agenda for today’s working class.

Karla Walter of the Center for American Progress and Vincent Vernuccio of the Institute for the American Worker talked about the impact of Trump administration economic and labor policies on working A...

The Trump administration claims to speak for American workers, but it took away the collective bargaining rights of 1 in every 15 workers protected by a union contract.

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW...

Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.

The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 would provide donors to nonprofit groups that distribute private K-12 school vouchers with a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit in exchange for their ...

Explore how U.S. workers get health insurance, the disparities by race, gender, and income, and how looming policy changes could leave millions uninsured.

Recent attacks on the Social Security Administration (SSA) by Elon Musk’s DOGE team and others in the Trump administration threaten the stability of this critical agency. In addition to endangering th...

Americans trust each other less than they did a few decades ago. We explore why this is, and why some are more trusting than others.

The New York Times recently reported on a range of policy suggestions from pronatalist and right-wing conservative groups interested in increasing the

Most of the remaining employees of the Department of Labor’s federal contractor watchdog received layoff notices this week as the Trump administration completes a key step in its plan to drastically d...

Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly approved paid sick leave laws last year. Now some lawmakers in those states are trying to roll back the benefits before they begin.

Why U.S. policymakers should approach economic policy with an eye to its downstream political effects on democracy and policy approaches.