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'No tax on OT' FAQ

The 2025 Republican budget bill created a new, temporary federal income tax deduction for the premium portion of overtime pay. Trump and his administration have sold this policy as a substantial victory for workers.

It is not.

Overtime exists to discourage employers from overworking their employees. This policy will not benefit most workers and could harm them. There will be less pressure on employers to hire more staff and raise wages. All workers will be harmed by the budget bill’s massive cuts to health care, energy, and food assistance programs made to finance tax cuts for the ultrawealthy.

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The 2025 labor market can best be characterized as faltering. The national unemployment rate climbed to its highest point in four years, job growth slowed dramatically, and federal employment fell by a staggering 277,000. Black women bore the brunt of the economic slowdown, suffering far greater employment losses than other groups of women or Black men.

In one of the sharpest one-year declines in the last 25 years, Black women’s employment rate fell by 1.4 percentage points to 55.7%.

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Workers’ union rights are under attack. Trump’s sidelining of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), frivolous industry-backed lawsuits challenging the NLRB’s constitutionality, the loss of bargaining rights, and making it more difficult to organize a union all demonstrate the need for states to maintain and enforce workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain.

Where states have authority to legislate they must step in to ensure federal protections are locked in, extend organizing and collective bargaining rights to workers not protected by federal law, and streamline organizing and first contract processes.

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Following the January expiration of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, millions of working families have lost health care coverage. Millions more face much higher premiums.

Black families disproportionately face these impacts since they are more likely to live in states without Medicaid expansion, and they are more likely to have lower and less stable incomes. 

Reinstating and extending the ACA premium tax credits is crucial for equity-enhancing, race-conscious economic and public health policy. Understand the impacts →

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