"In his State of the Union next Tuesday, the President should announce he'll expand overtime eligibility. ... In 1975, more than 65% of salaried workers earned overtime pay. Today, only 11% do. Now, workers who earn more than $23,660 a year can be made to work overtime hours for no additional pay at all. To restore overtime eligibility to the same percentage of workers as in 1975, the Department of Labor should raise the overtime threshold to $69,000. ... If this were the rule,10.4 million middle-class Americans would get a raise. If corporate America didn't want to pay time and a half, it would have to hire hundreds of thousands of additional workers to pick up the slack -- slashing the unemployment rate and forcing up wages." Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary
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