use executive action to expand overtime to as many workers as possible.

Over the last 40 years, the number of workers eligible for overtime pay has dropped dramatically. In 1975, over 65% of salaried workers earned overtime pay. Now, it's 11%. Today, workers with salaries over $23,660 a year can be made to work overtime for zero additional pay. 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. So if you earn $69,000 or less, the law would require that you be paid time-and-a-half for every hour worked over 40 hours a week. This would give 10.4 million middle-class Americans a raise. If employers didn't want to pay time-and-a-half, they would have to hire hundreds of thousands of new workers to pick up the slack, slashing unemployment and forcing up wages.