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Economic Policy Institute. “What Is DOGE Doing to Social Security?“
Investopedia
May 27, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Trump has issued dozens of executive orders to roll back or review existing regulations, including an order directing agencies – including the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) – to eliminate ten existing protections before enacting any new guidelines.
Corporate Crime Reporter
May 27, 2025
Maryland, with a population of nearly 6.3 million, is a company town: The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning policy research group, estimates that Maryland has the second-largest percentage of its population employed by the federal government, at 7.3%, second only to the District’s 13.2%. Virginia, with a population of more than 8.8 million, is third with 5.6%.
Maryland Matters
May 27, 2025
Monique Morrissey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, says people most impacted by DOGE are those with disabilities and low-income seniors, groups that rely more heavily on in-person support. Fewer SSA staff will make it harder to come by.
“People trying to access retirement benefits will also face delays,” shared Morrissey. “Some people eligible for disability income and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) will lose out permanently from service delays and disruptions in accessing these benefits.”
Houston Defender
May 27, 2025
“They just are not finding very much at all,” said John Schmitt, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, when asked whether ineligible individuals are routinely receiving Medicaid.
LA Times
May 27, 2025
David Cooper, director of state policy and research at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, says that if you look closely at U.S. income-tax data, you’ll see that very few workers will get any benefit from this measure. “Exempting tips from the federal income taxes would benefit a tiny fraction of workers – less than 3% of all tax units,” he says. “Among tipped workers in the bottom quintile (the bottom 20%) of income-tax units, only 34% would get any tax benefit.” The average benefit would be $220 a year for tipped workers in the bottom 20% of earners, and $800 a year for those in the next lowest 20%.
MarketWatch
May 27, 2025
“I’m not at all saying that workers won’t get anything,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “But I think that a meaningful share of the [federal] expenditures on a tax exemption like this will go to the employers of tipped workers.”
That might be why industry lobbyists have backed the proposal. “It’s not a surprise that the National Restaurant Association loves this,” Shierholz said, referring to the lobbying group that represents many of the country’s major restaurant chains.
VOX
May 27, 2025
But critics argue that the legislation may benefit a limited number of workers while potentially undercutting pay for a larger group. Many tipped workers are already in the lower income brackets and pay little federal income tax, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which warns that the elimination of taxes on tips could reduce pressure on employers to raise base wages.
Barron’s
May 27, 2025
The exemption would impact only a small fraction of the country’s workforce. The Yale Budget Lab estimates that some 4 million people worked in tipped occupations in the U.S. in 2023, representing about 2.5% of all U.S. workers. Others, such as the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), estimate tipped workers to make up a slightly higher percentage of about 5%
Time Magazine
May 27, 2025
Those federal government jobs offer long, stable tenure — 12 years on average, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, versus four years for all civilian workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Marketplace
May 27, 2025