evidence: While the Biden-Harris administration increased the salary threshold for eligibility to a very modest $43,888, the authoritarian playbook known as Project 2025 proposes decreasing access and giving employers more power to exclude their employees. Project 2025’s far-right vision of overtime eligibility and benefits is designed to confuse and disempower workers. It would put more power in the hands of employers to exploit employees, which is seemingly part of Project 2025’s larger goal: pad corporate bottom lines at the expense of workers. [...] Jenn Round noted to PolitiFact that Project 2025 could be read as proposing different overtime thresholds in different parts of the country, and it’s not clear how many workers that would affect given that Project 2025 does not include details on which regions would be considered "low cost." Notably, framing the South, in particular, as "low cost" is misleading; and the Economic Policy Institute debunks the premise of "lower-cost regions" as Project 2025’s justification for lower wages. Adjusting each state’s median annual wages for cost of living, workers in the South are still paid less than other workers. Project 2025 contends that millions fewer workers should get overtime pay