According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in addition to helping relatively few workers, exempting taxes on tips could potentially undercut pay for many more workers, would encourage tax avoidance, and would reduce pressure on employers to increase base pay, among other concerns.
Common Dreams
May 27, 2025
As for the investments from the Gulf governments, “these sovereign wealth investment funds already have a substantial investment portfolio in the United States,” Adam Hersh, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Public Notice. “So a lot of what’s being announced is probably stuff that they already are doing or were going to do anyway.”
Public Notice Substack
May 27, 2025
The average annual cost of child care in Arizona is $15,625 per year, which comes to $1,302 per month, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
KTAR News
May 27, 2025
California teachers have the highest pay in the country, making an average of $101,084 a year. The starting salary for new teachers averages about $58,409. Despite that, teachers still make about 80 cents less an hour than other college-educated professionals in the state with similar work experience, according to the NEA. The minimum living wage for the state is $69,601, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
EdSource
May 27, 2025
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