Virginia lawmakers started off the 2026 General Assembly considering potentially transformative legislation to extend full and equal collective bargaining rights to all state and local government employees, including home care workers. The benefits of such a law would extend far beyond public employees themselves—improving the quality of public services, health care, education, and economic outcomes …
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The $200 billion for immigration enforcement is 91 times more than the funding for all federal worker protection agencies combined.
A pro-worker majority is at stake in Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election
The April 1 election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pitting Judge Susan Crawford against Judge Brad Schimel, will have serious consequences for the state’s working families. Judge Crawford has demonstrated support of policies that raise workers’ wages and protect workers’ rights, while Judge Schimel supports policies that have demonstrably hurt Wisconsin workers and their families. …
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A Republican takeover would benefit billionaires, not you
While Project 2025 has become infamous over the course of the presidential campaign, there’s another Republican policy blueprint that’s just as radical. In March, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released an updated budget plan detailing what Republicans plan to do if they take over Congress in November. The committee represents 80% of House Republicans, including …
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Working families need an end to wage suppression more than new tax cuts
Donald Trump seems to float a new tax cut every week he claims will help working families—most recently proposing to make tips, overtime earnings, and Social Security benefits tax-exempt. This new playbook is obviously a cynical ploy given that Trump as president specifically undermined tipped workers, overtime earners, and Social Security recipients. But most importantly, …
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A second Trump term would increase health care costs for working families
Key findings: U.S. politics have recently become so chaotic and personality-driven that it’s easy to forget the long-running and high-stakes differences in how conservatives and progressives approach key policy debates. One of the starkest differences is their approach to health care. The conservative prescription for health care is increasing health care users’ “skin in the …
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The Biden-Harris administration has boosted the multiracial working class
The share of workers earning at least $17 an hour jumped from 63% to 79% between 2019 and 2023 When people talk about “the working class,” they often invoke the image of a white man in a blue-collar job and stop there. In reality, the working class looks a lot like the overall U.S. population—it …
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Project 2025 would strip federal overtime protections from at least 8 million workers
“The overtime provisions in Project 2025 comprise a profoundly anti-overtime agenda that will mean millions will be working more for less.” See the impact by state and demographics U.S. law requires that most workers receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. This is a fundamental employment standard that helps …
How Trump and Project 2025 policies could permanently raise interest rates
Today’s interest rates are already too high and damaging family budgets and long-term climate and housing goals. But, for now, the Federal Reserve still has the freedom to lower them—an action they should have taken a while ago. However, the policies put forward by Donald Trump and Republican plans like Project 2025 would both drive …
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The little-known Project 2025 tax on employee benefits
One (terrible) Project 2025 proposal has not yet gotten the attention it deserves: taxing the non-wage benefits that workers receive from their employers
Project 2025 is not simply a “wish list”—it’s a real threat to our hard-fought rights and freedoms
By Celine McNicholas, General Counsel and Director of Policy, and Naomi Walker, Executive Vice President By now, you’ve likely heard of Project 2025, the policy mandate produced by the Heritage Foundation alongside more than 110 conservative groups that aims to completely overhaul U.S. government and society. You may have also heard about the recent staff …
The Trump agenda would drive prices higher
In 2016, claims that the incoming Trump administration policy agenda would raise inflation were wrong. That is no longer the case.
Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
Besides the pronounced superiority of macroeconomic performance under Democratic presidents, the fruits of economic growth are also distributed substantially more equally under Democratic presidents.