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Wages, Workplace & Economy Cuts
Project 2025 proposals will:

Cut Wages, Create Unsafe Workplaces, and Destabilize Our Economy

Project 2025 would enable corporations to cut overtime pay, relax worker safety rules, allow workplace discrimination, and more.

Below is “How They’d Do It.” (Click a topic for the details)

Project 2025 wants the Department of Labor to make it harder for people to earn overtime pay
In 2024, the Biden administration issued a policy that will make over four million workers newly eligible to qualify for overtime pay. The U.S. Department of Labor did this by raising the “overtime threshold,” which is the salary ceiling under which salaried workers still qualify automatically for overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week, even though those workers are not paid hourly. Raising the overtime threshold increases the number of workers with guaranteed overtime protections. Currently, the threshold protects non-hourly workers who make up to $43,888 annually, and it’s set to rise again in 2025 to apply to people making up to $58,656.
Project 2025 doesn’t want to raise this threshold. Instead, Project 2025 proposes lowering the threshold and taking away overtime eligibility for millions of workers. This would leave at least four million working people in industries that pay annually but still at lower wages stuck working long hours without overtime pay — everything from hospitality to manufacturing, administrative roles, and more.
From Mandate for Leadership p. 492
Project 2025 proposes to destroy a program that plays a pivotal role in facilitating transformative economic growth for local economies.
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) was responsible for investing billions of ARP dollars into transformative infrastructure projects across the nation. According to their 2022 report, these investments resulted in 220,000 jobs and generated nearly $20 billion in private investment.
Project 2025, however, wants to consolidate the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau with BLS into one agency. While formal reorganization requires explicit delegation from Congress to go through, the Trump administration made an attempt in 2018 to bypass Congress and use other executive powers to do so. If an extremist were to occupy the executive branch again, Project 2025 would want them to go even further.
From Mandate for Leadership p. 664
By consolidating the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, Project 2025 would kneecap the data-collection capacities of these important agencies — with effects felt by working people across the nation.
Data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is intentionally independent from partisan interests and is frequently relied on by the public, employers, researchers, and government organizations. According to BLS, they “measure employment, compensation, worker safety, productivity, and price movements. This information is used by jobseekers, workers, business leaders, and others to help them make sound decisions at work and at home.”
Project 2025, however, wants to consolidate the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau with BLS into one agency. While formal reorganization requires explicit delegation from Congress to go through, the Trump administration made an attempt in 2018 to bypass Congress and use other executive powers to do so. If an extremist were to occupy the executive branch again, Project 2025 would want them to go even further.
From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 583
Project 2025 would amend hazard regulations to allow employers to put young people in unsafe working conditions.
The authors of Project 2025 think that young people should be able to work in “inherently dangerous jobs,” in roles that are currently not permitted due to significant safety concerns that have long been established and enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Project 2025 would change DOL policies and allow America’s youth to work these jobs, meaning young people entering the labor force out of economic necessity could be subjected to more dangerous work because they need the income more than others — and cannot access a safer job or get paid as well.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “Hazard-Order Regulations. Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs. Current rules forbid many young people, even if their family is running the business, from working in such jobs. This results in worker shortages in dangerous fields and often discourages otherwise interested young workers from trying the more dangerous job”
TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM ” Mandate for Leadership” p. 595

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