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Project 2025 is an attack on worker rights and protections Problems viewing this email? [View it in your browser]( [Center for American Progress]( InProgress from the Center for American Progress To make sure you never miss an email from us, please add progress@americanprogress.org to your contacts or safe senders list. Thanks for staying connected with us! Yet another way Project 2025 will harm American workers [An employee pushes shopping carts out the front doors of a dollar store]( Photo credit: Getty Images Overtime pay is a crucial safeguard that ensures workers are fairly compensated for the extra hours they put in, helping them balance work with personal and family obligations. Yet Project 2025 seeks to roll back this protection, making it easier for employers to exploit workers by denying them the overtime pay they deserve. While the Biden-Harris administration recently [increased the salary threshold for overtime eligibility]( to $43,888—a modest but important step forward—Project 2025 aims to reverse this progress. If implemented, employers would have more power to exclude workers from overtime pay, allowing them to force 60-to-70-hour workweeks without any additional compensation. [KEEP READING]( This isn’t just an attack on overtime pay—it’s a broader assault on the rights and protections that workers have fought hard to secure. Learn about how Project 2025’s plans to gut America’s system of checks and balances will specifically harm American workers. [Learn More]( Submit your questions on Project 2025 As 2025 looms closer, more people are talking about [Project 2025]( the extreme policy playbook for a far-right administration. Its sweeping proposals would affect nearly every facet of American life, with the overarching goal of an authoritarian takeover that threatens the rights, freedoms, and protections Americans have fought for—and won—over decades. But it’s even more important that you know how Project 2025 will affect your family and community. The Center for American Progress invites you to submit your questions, and we’ll provide the answers and clarity you need. [SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS]( Live from Martha’s Vineyard: It’s our policy future! ICYMI: Experts from across the country met to discuss a Black agenda for 2025 and expose the threats posed by Project 2025. Hear from CAP’s President and CEO [Patrick Gaspard](. [A tweet from @AmProg reads: "This month, CAP and @NPWF hosted a conversation on a Black agenda for 2025 that advances racial equity and equality. During the panel, @PatrickGaspard reminded us that with #Project2025 all our fights are tied together:" An video thumbnail of Patrick Gaspard with a microphone. ]( [watch now]( How will Project 2025 affect people in your state? Here are the facts [The White House is seen in Washington, D.C.]( Photo credit: Getty Images How exactly will Project 2025’s radical and extremist policies disrupt every aspect of American life, from health care and education to taxes and retirement security? CAP has developed [fact sheets]( for each state across the country so you can learn about how the Project 2025 agenda will directly affect life in your state. [Find your state]( Follow us on [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Follow us on YouTube]( [Follow us on Instagram]( [Support CAP]( [Manage Email Preferences or Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( [Center for American Progress]( Center for American Progress 1333 H Street NW Washington, D.C. 20005 [supporter]