Working Families Party

The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive minor political party in the United States. WFP was organized in 1998 as a successor to the New Party by a coalition of labor unions, advocacy groups including Citizen Action of New York, and community organizations including Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

WFP supports a progressive policy agenda, including raising the minimum wage, expanding public education, universal paid sick leave, Medicare For All, reducing student debt, increasing progressive taxation, and environmental reform.

Founded in New York, WFP has active chapters in nearly two dozen states. WFP has statewide ballot access in Connecticut, New York, and Oregon. WFP's most successful chapters are the New York Working Families Party (NYWFP) and Connecticut Working Families Party (CTWFP).

Some of the party's endorsed candidates include Connecticut governor Dan Malloy, U.S. representative Jesús "Chuy" García, US senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Jeff Merkley (OR), former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, New York attorney general Letitia James, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.