The changes lift wages for roughly 800,000 workers, according to a wage impacts chart created by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Money Talk News
July 7, 2025
- Knock-On Impact: The bill’s immigration enforcement would eliminate almost six million jobs over the next four years, according to an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute. Over 2.5 million US-born workers would lose their jobs.
News Not Noise Substack
July 7, 2025
An analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimated that the deportation provisions in the megabill will put 6 million people out of work – including 2.6 million born in the U.S. That’s because the loss of immigrant workers would hurt many sectors of the economy.
“While Trump and other conservatives claim that increased arrests, detentions, and deportations will somehow magically create jobs for U.S. born workers, the existing evidence shows that the opposite is true; they will cause immense harm to workers and families, shrink the economy, and weaken the labor market for everyone,” wrote the author, Ben Zipperer.
Cronkite News
July 7, 2025
One major challenge raised by the new work requirements in the tax bill is that they will make it more complicated for recipients to access Medicaid by adding to the red tape people will have to go through to prove their eligibility.
“While work requirements do not reliably increase employment, they do significantly increase the administrative burden and costs of applying for safety net programs,” a memo from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute previously explained.
Huffpost
July 7, 2025
On average, child care in Kentucky costs $8,756 a year, or $730 per month, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Kentucky Lantern
July 7, 2025
00:45 — Daniel Costa is Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at Economic Policy Institute.
KPFA
July 7, 2025
Why it matters: In Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. alone, that means paycheck boosts for more than 880,000 people, according to The Economic Policy Institute, also impacting workers in major hubs like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and D.C.
Axios
July 7, 2025
Adam Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said a 20% tariff is significant. As is the 10% tariff Trump announced on goods from the U.K.
“It still puts us at the highest that tariffs have been in more than a century,” Hersh said.
And, he said, it’s still going to be hugely disruptive to the U.S. economy.
Marketplace
July 7, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) for North Carolina is sharing that childcare costs are on a major rise.
The EPI reports that the average annual cost for care in the state is $11,720, which is 57% more per year than the average annual in-state tuition for a four-year public college. They also report that families with at least two children pay more than $19,000 per year, which is more than the average annual rent price in the state.
WXII-TV
July 7, 2025
At least 26 states have launched “government efficiency” initiatives of their own in recent months, typically through executive order, legislation, or the creation of a legislative committee, according to an April analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
The EPI briefing outlines how these state-level initiatives “use disingenuous calls to ‘root out inefficiency’ and ‘cut wasteful spending’ as a smokescreen,” with the ultimate goal of funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
“State lawmakers are using the DOGE brand to restructure government in favor of partisan interests,” Nina Mast, an EPI policy and economic analyst and a coauthor of the briefing, told Truthout. “They’re weaponizing ‘efficiency,’ in order to limit agency authority and put burdensome new requirements on agencies that serve the public.”
Truthout
July 7, 2025