The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has analyzed the potential impact of the proposed Medicaid cuts, indicating that such reductions could significantly decrease incomes for the bottom 40 percent of earners. The EPI’s report suggests that the cuts would disproportionately affect low-income households, exacerbating existing economic disparities.
Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute shared a tool for calculating how many federal workers are in a given state, county, town or congressional district — there are more than 10,000 just in my hometown of New Orleans, more than 2% of the workforce.
Economists use an employment multiplier to account for indirect jobs that depend on a primary job, and the independent Economic Policy Institute used data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate an employment multiplier of 5.37 for oil and gas workers. That would mean the industry is responsible for 37,710 direct and indirect oil and gas jobs in New Mexico — roughly a third of what is written in the legislative memorial.
An Economic Policy Institutestudy published last year found that RTW states “have lower unionization rates, wages, and benefits compared with non-RTW states.”
Wage and Hour investigations of farms reached a record low in 2022 according to the Economic Policy Institute. Since then, investigative staff shrank a further 9.5%.
According to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the bottom fifth of income earners would see their household incomes diminish by 7.4 percent if the GOP’s spending cuts are approved. Meanwhile, an extension of the Trump tax cuts from 2017 would only increase their incomes by 0.6 percent.
I suspect that the latter two are at play here in removing critical data on covered populations that is needed for the implementation of the Digital Equity Act. As the Economic Policy Institute explains, these executive orders and subsequent OPM Guidance “require agencies to remove all DEIA-related materials from their website[s].”
The Economic Policy Institute last week released a report detailing how extending the expiring provisions from the tax law that Republican lawmakers passed and Trump signed in 2017 “will have painful trade-offs for the U.S. economy and most Americans.”