Why workers need the Protecting the Right to Organize Act: How the PRO Act solves the problems in current law that thwart workers seeking union representation

February 9, 2021 By Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, and Lynn Rhinehart Fact Sheet

Why the U.S. needs a $15 minimum wage: How the Raise the Wage Act would benefit U.S. workers and their families

January 26, 2021 Fact Sheet

Debt and deficits in the coronavirus recovery: Answers to frequently asked questions

July 16, 2020 By Josh Bivens Fact Sheet

How California’s AB5 protects workers from misclassification

November 14, 2019 By Celine McNicholas and Margaret Poydock Fact Sheet

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift wages for over 33 million workers

July 17, 2019 By David Cooper Fact Sheet

The federal minimum wage should be a robust national wage floor, not adjusted region by region

March 18, 2019 Fact Sheet

Fact sheet on regional minimum wage proposals: Millions of workers would lose out on billions of dollars under a regionally adjusted federal minimum wage

March 5, 2019 By David Cooper and Heidi Shierholz Fact Sheet

Nevada state employee fact sheet

February 19, 2019 By Monique Morrissey Fact Sheet

Why America Needs a $15 Minimum Wage

February 5, 2019 Fact Sheet

A Missouri ‘right-to-work’ law is more likely to harm black workers, who are more likely to be covered by a union contract than other workers

May 15, 2018 By Valerie Wilson and Julia Wolfe Fact Sheet

Black workers in right-to-work (RTW) states tend to have lower wages than in Missouri and other non-RTW states

May 15, 2018 By Valerie Wilson and Julia Wolfe Fact Sheet

States with joint-employer shield laws are protecting wealthy corporate franchisers at the expense of franchisees and workers

February 13, 2018 By Marni von Wilpert Fact Sheet

State action to save workers’ overtime pay: Fact sheet for “What’s at stake in the states if the federal raise to the overtime pay threshold is not resurrected—and what states can do about it”

November 15, 2017 By Celine McNicholas, Samantha Sanders, Heidi Shierholz, and Dianne Stewart Fact Sheet

Common tax ‘reform’ questions, answered: Why tax cuts for high-income households and corporations won’t help working families

October 3, 2017 By Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair Fact Sheet

Correcting the record: Consumers fare better under class actions than arbitration

August 1, 2017 By Heidi Shierholz Fact Sheet

Here is what’s at stake with the conflict of interest (‘fiduciary’) rule

May 30, 2017 By Heidi Shierholz and Ben Zipperer Fact Sheet

How raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2024 will benefit women

May 25, 2017 Fact Sheet

Understanding the anti-regulation agenda: The basics

April 11, 2017 By Heidi Shierholz and Celine McNicholas Fact Sheet

H-1B visa needs reform to make it fairer to migrant and American workers

April 5, 2017 By Daniel Costa Fact Sheet

How would repealing the Affordable Care Act affect health care and jobs in your state?

Frequently asked questions about the H-2B temporary foreign worker program

June 2, 2016 By Daniel Costa Fact Sheet

Facts on the updated overtime rule

May 17, 2016 Fact Sheet

What you need to know about the new overtime pay law

May 17, 2016 Fact Sheet

Outsourcers top the list of companies seeking high-skilled guestworkers in Silicon Valley and across California: Snapshot analysis of California H-1B visa use

May 16, 2016 Fact Sheet

Frequently Asked Questions: On the Federal Reserve Board, monetary policy, and the proposed Full Employment Federal Reserve Act

December 1, 2015 By Dean Baker and Josh Bivens Report

How the Economy Has Performed for Workers This Year: Labor Day 2015 by the Numbers

August 25, 2015 Fact Sheet

Raising the Overtime Pay Threshold Will Help More Workers Get the Pay They Deserve

August 4, 2015 Fact Sheet

Why it’s time to update overtime pay rules: frequently asked questions

August 4, 2015 Fact Sheet

How the Federal Reserve Can Help or Hurt the Economy: What’s at Stake

July 8, 2015 By Josh Bivens Fact Sheet

It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage

April 23, 2015 Fact Sheet

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