Our Work
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Living Wage and Minimum Wage
We advocate for a strong minimum wage to increase opportunity for working families across the country.
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Unemployment Insurance
We work to build a robust safety net program that helps workers surmount job loss and navigate today’s uncertain economy.
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Economic and Workforce Development
We develop innovative strategies that give workers, communities and policymakers the tools they need to build a good jobs economy.
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Enforcement of Workplace Standards
We pioneer new strategies to win effective enforcement of minimum wage, overtime, and other core standards that govern the American workplace.
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Immigrants and Work
We promote policies that build equality, fairness and inclusion for all those who work in America.
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Criminal Records and Employment
We develop smart public policies that give workers with criminal records a second chance to rebuild their lives and pursue economic opportunity.
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Labor Market Research
We conduct research to document structural failures in the 21st century economy and point the way to viable policy solutions.
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- 01-07-09 Read a major analysis of "Migrant Labor, Forced Labor and Human Rights," presented at this year's LERA conference. Read More
- 01-07-09 As state legislatures reconvene, the recession is on top of the agenda. NELP provides new recommendations for model policies to protect the jobless. Read More
- 12-30-08 New Jersey's Minimum Wage Advisory Commission has released its 2008 Annual Report, which calls on lawmakers to raise the minimum wage and adopts other proposals recommended by NELP and allies. Read More
- 12-14-08 NELP joined New York's Center for Working Families in co-sponsoring its annual policy conference, which included a "good jobs" presentation by policy co-director Annette Bernhardt. Read More
- 12-10-08 Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights by delivering human dignity to all those at work in America. Support the work of NELP's partners to end the exclusion of nannies, housekeepers and caregivers from basic labor rights. Read More
- 12-08-08 New national poll documents the serious hardships of unemployment, calling attention to the need to modernize the unemployment program. Read More
- 12-05-08 "This is the big one." NELP statement on the November Jobs report. Read More
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11-20-08
NELP participates in EEOC meeting on employment discrimination faced by individuals with arrest and conviction histories.
Read More - 11-20-08 Senate votes to provide urgently needed relief to jobless families--extra help will reach 1.2 million by the end of 2008. Read More
- 11-20-08 NELP releases Rebuilding a Good Jobs Economy: A Blueprint for Recovery and Reform, a concrete and viable agenda on workplace and economic policy for the new administration and Congress. Read More
- 11-20-08 NELP and allies join with Good Jobs First to issue a report on reforming federal economic development programs to work better for taxpayers, workers and the environment. Read More
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11-20-08
NELP has filed an EEOC complaint enforcing federal protections for workers of color unfairly denied employment based on a criminal record.
Read More - 11-13-08 NELP has partnered with the Center for American Progress and the Half in Ten Campaign on a new report -- “Helping the Jobless Helps Us All” -- calling for unemployment insurance reform. Read More
- 11-10-08 NELP's Rebecca Smith contributed recent Oxfam report that spotlights conditions after Hurricane Katrina as a prime example of the nation's failure to uphold basic workplace standards. Read More
- 11-07-08 Major job cuts in October pushed the unemployment rate up to 6.5% and long-term joblessness to its highest level in 25 years. Read More
