Minimum Wage

The Center for American Progress has long worked to build the policy case for raising the minimum wage and eliminating the subminimum wage for people with disabilities and tipped workers. The following research and analyses demonstrate how people deserve to be paid fairly for their work and how a higher minimum wage would—rather than limit job growth—provide financial stability for families and boost overall economic growth.

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The Trump Administration Is Quietly Gutting Minimum Wage Protections for Millions of Workers Article

The Trump Administration Is Quietly Gutting Minimum Wage Protections for Millions of Workers

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; this Labor Day, it will advance plans to eliminate federal minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers.

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Aurelia Glass

Despite Musk’s Departure, Trump’s War Against Unions and Workers Will Continue Article

Despite Musk’s Departure, Trump’s War Against Unions and Workers Will Continue

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 million workers, slash wage protections for hundreds of thousands, and muzzle a key agency protecting organizing rights.

Center for American Progress

Aurelia Glass

Harris’ Plan To Raise the Minimum Wage and Eliminate Tax on Tips Would Benefit Service and Hospitality Workers Article
Photo shows Kamala Harris smiling and gesticulating as she speaks behind a podium with the Vice President of the United States seal

Harris’ Plan To Raise the Minimum Wage and Eliminate Tax on Tips Would Benefit Service and Hospitality Workers

Crucially, the vice president’s proposal would provide guardrails to keep the policy aimed at low-paid workers, in contrast to Trump’s plan, which would allow the wealthy to skirt taxes.

Marc Jarsulic, Brendan Duke, Emily Gee, 1 More Kennedy Andara

The Raise the Wage Effort Is Coming to a City Near You Report
Union organizers, students, and supporters for a $15-an-hour minimum wage march through the Oakland section Pittsburgh on Thursday, April 14, 2016. ((AP/Keith Srakocic))

The Raise the Wage Effort Is Coming to a City Near You

Conservatives claim the minimum wage kills jobs, but new analysis and academic research poke holes in these claims.

Molly Cain

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