In California and Washington, tipped employees get at least $16 an hour in wages. That’s because in those states and several others, there is no special tipped minimum wage — all employees get the regular minimum wage. Advocates like the Economic Policy Institute argue this is a better approach, since paying lower wages to tipped employees only reinforces the issues with tipping.
Denverite
February 27, 2025
According to new estimates from the Economic Policy Institute, on average, the bottom 40% of earners in every state would see an income reduction from Medicaid cuts, as they would not benefit enough from any extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) to outweigh the value of the health care they lose. Instead, they’d be forced to pay out of pocket for medical care or go without necessary treatments.
Maine Morning Star
February 27, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the highest-paid employee at a co-op typically earns about $1.45 for every $1 earned by the lowest-paid employee. At traditional firms, that ratio is roughly 344-to-1 for the highest earners.
Philadelphia Citizen
February 27, 2025
Privatizing the Postal Service would hit homebound seniors, people in rural areas, and residents of low-income urban neighborhoods hardest, wrote Monique Morrissey of the Economic Policy Institute: “The corporations that stand to gain will do so not because they are more efficient than the Postal Service, but because they can shed public service obligations and pay their workers less.”
Provincetown Independent
February 27, 2025
In 2024, there were 48 million immigrants residing in the U.S. and working in fields ranging from construction, to nursing, to software development. As the native-born American population continues to age, welcoming new people to the country will be a vital component of continuing to grow the economy, according to a joint analysis by the Immigration Research Initiative and Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
February 27, 2025
In fact, “nearly 50% of federal employees have been in federal service for more than a decade, acquiring deep expertise and knowledge,” reports the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Heggeness warns that losing all of these medical professionals, public health officials, regulators, scientists, and so on could be a long-term threat to the U.S.’s global standing.
Fortune
February 27, 2025
When Evans claimed that he voted for this budget because of Colorado’s undocumented immigrants, what he really means is that Colorado spends too much on households making less than $56,000 per year. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, Colorado households making less than $30,000 stand to lose about $14,000 of that income due to Medicaid cuts.
Colorado Times Recorder
February 27, 2025
In this context, where is the movement for reparations? In a new report, economist Kyle Moore writes “Reparations is our North Star for equity, providing a counterweight against a backslide into white supremacy.”
GUEST: Kyle Moore, Economist with the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute. He recently authored a report called Why we have to keep talking about reparations in 2025.
Rising Up with Sonali
February 27, 2025
While all of us should care about seeking out government waste and abuse, there are too many ambiguities and contradictions with DOGE and the Trump administration’s role in downsizing the federal government. As Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute writes, DOGE is “clearly a bad-faith effort rooted in ignorance and a knee-jerk desire to shrink the federal government, both for ideological reasons and the creation of space to preserve the tax cuts for the rich and corporations that will be locked-in later this year.”
Iowa State Daily
February 27, 2025
Meanwhile, Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute has warned that DOGE’s approach could cause long-term damage to essential services rather than improving efficiency, calling it “a bad-faith effort rooted in ignorance and a knee-jerk desire to shrink the federal government.”
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
February 27, 2025