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Low-Paid Jobs & Minimum Wage

Women are much more likely as men to work in low-wage occupations that typically pay $11 per hour or less — jobs such as child care workers, restaurant servers, maids and cashiers.

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How Project 2025 Pushes Corporate Profit Not Worker Power

NWLC Statement on President Biden’s Executive Action to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Deportation

One Fair Wage: Women Fare Better in States with Equal Treatment for Tipped Workers

NWLC Applauds Biden Administration’s New Overtime Rule

The Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act Section-By-Section Summary

Latinas Cannot Afford to Wait for Change

NWLC Applauds Reintroduction of the Schedules That Work Act and Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act

The Schedules That Work Act: Giving Workers the Tools They Need to Succeed

Collateral Damage: Scheduling Challenges for Workers in Low-Wage Jobs and Their Consequences

The Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act: Promoting Fair Treatment for Part-Time Work

The Raise the Wage Act: Valuing Working People and Advancing Equal Pay

Hard Work Is Not Enough: Women in Low-Paid Jobs

NWLC Releases Data Revealing Child Care Workers’ Wage Growth Lags Behind Other Low-Paid Occupations

In D.C., Some Workers Make $5.35 Per Hour. You Can Change That.

NWLC Files Amicus Brief to Protect Restaurant Workers’ Rights

Women’s Jobs Are Being Added Back to the Economy—But Many Need Improving

NWLC, NELP, CWA, SEIU, and EPI Urge Court to Reject Efforts to Halt Federal Contractor Wage Increase

Tax the Patriarchy

Gender and the Tax Code

NWLC Files Amicus Briefs Defending Biden Minimum-Wage Rule

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 Will Help Women and Families

Testimony, The American Rescue Plan: Shots in Arms and Money in Pockets

Federal Policy Solutions for Raising Wages and Investing in Child Care

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NWLC Applauds Passage of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

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Pass the Raise the Wage Act