An article from the Economic Policy Institute cautions that the “No Tax on Tips Act” could be dangerous by expanding the use of tipped work, a system they’re calling “rife with discrimination and worker abuse.” They worry about worker pay increases being undermined while at the same time depleting state and federal budgets.
K2 Radio
May 27, 2025
While NEA lists Mississippi’s “minimum living wage” at $62,865 per the Economic Policy Institute, the Forbes report shows the average overall salary in Mississippi to be $45,180, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Magnolia State had the lowest average salary across the U.S.
Magnolia Tribune
May 27, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank based in Washington, D.C., has said this amounts to a program that exploits and silences migrant workers, replacing year-round workers in the process. In some cases, U.S. prosecutors have accused farmers and recruiters of using the H-2A program to engage in forced labor trafficking.
El Paso Inc.
May 27, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, previously said that eliminating taxes on tips could motivate employers not to raise wages, adding that the bill distracts from more beneficial strategies like increasing the minimum wage and getting rid of the subminimum wage for tipped workers.
Huffpost
May 27, 2025
GUTTING MEDICAID will have devastating knock-on effects around the country. That was the conclusion of a report released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) earlier this year. “These cuts will not just cause harm to individual families, they will cascade, leading to hospital closures in rural counties, higher medical debt, lower earnings from future workers who will suffer from poorer health decades from now, and could even put upward pressure on federal budget deficits in the long run. In the very near term, these cuts will make the [U.S.] economy far more vulnerable to any recessionary shock.”
American Prospect
May 27, 2025
The letter’s signatories include Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Economic Policy Institute, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the Alphabet Workers Union, and many others.
Business Insider
May 27, 2025
Without TPS, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants living and working in the U.S. legally will see their way of living uprooted overnight. TPS recipients have high labor force participation and pay income and sales taxes. Many contribute to Social Security and Medicare, even though they will likely never qualify for the benefits, says the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Beast
May 27, 2025
Many critics of work requirements say the policy is built on the false belief that people who are struggling to get by are in that position because of laziness or some other personal shortcoming.
“More stringent work requirements implemented in the past have largely failed to boost work in significant ways because these requirements do not attack the core problems of weak macroeconomic conditions, the volatile nature of low-wage work, and other barriers to work,” Hilary Wething of the Economic Policy Institute wrote in January.
Yahoo News
May 27, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator estimates that a household with two adults and no children in the Seattle/Bellevue metro area will pay an average of $916 monthly in taxes.
Investopedia
May 27, 2025
Almost half of older Americans are financially unprepared for retirement. Many find themselves on the brink of poverty. The median retirement account balance for people nearing retirement age is just $10,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Next Avenue
May 27, 2025