The EPI warns if their taxable income goes down, they could lose their child tax credit when they file taxes at the end of the year, an unintended consequence that could have an impact on their tax returns.
Finally, the report says exempting tipped workers is unfair to other low-wage earners like cashiers or fast-food workers. It says high-end servers would likely benefit most.
Gulf Coast News Now
April 1, 2025
Multiple agencies, even those unaffected by the order, such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and American Federation of Musicians (AFM), have condemned the dissolution of collective bargaining for federal workers.
HR Digest
April 1, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute said the system emerged in the post-Depression recovery and has since boosted the American economy in its darkest hours, including during the 2008 recession and Covid-19 pandemic.
Courthouse News Service
April 1, 2025
According to SmartAsset, if you want to make it into the top 1% nationwide, you’ll need to earn $787,712 a year. Want to know what that breaks down to? A monthly income of $65,643. And if you’re going by the Economic Policy Institute’s numbers, you’d need even more—$819,324 a year, or $68,277 a month.
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
April 1, 2025
In 2022, Tukwila voters approved a measure to raise the minimum wage — now $20.29 an hour for large employers. Renton voters approved a measure in February 2024 to match neighboring Tukwila’s new wage. Everett would join these cities as having among the highest minimum wages in the country, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cascade PBS
April 1, 2025
Although we think of most minimum wage workers as young and without family responsibilities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “tipped workers are also more likely to be single parents — especially women workers.”
Boulder Daily Camera
April 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are 28,915 federal workers that live in Wisconsin, a figure based on pre-DOGE data. Federal workers have already been impacted by DOGE cuts, disrupting communities and families.
Meidas Touch News
April 1, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in September 2024, there were 200,000 bus drivers nationwide. That’s down about 12% compared to September 2019. The report from the organization shows the key issue that drives the shortage is because of low pay.
ABC 15 (Arizona)
April 1, 2025
The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive research group, estimates that the US lost 682,000 jobs because of Nafta. (Stellantis makes several models of its Ram pick-up truck in Mexico, while GM makes the electric versions of the Chevrolet Equinox there.)
The Guardian
April 1, 2025
Other reasons for tariffs include national security concerns, bolstering key points in supply chains and countering monopolization of critical imports, Economic Policy Institute economists Adam Hersh and Josh Bivens have said, per CNN.
Deseret News
April 1, 2025