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• KC mom got a raise at Arby’s after voters passed Prop A. Now efforts aim to strike it down

  Paywall.

  Kansas City Star | March 28, 2025
• ‘Fixing Our Broken Trade Deals’: American Auto Workers Praise Trump’s Tariffs

  Still, the U.S. has lost over 5 million manufacturing jobs from 1998 to 2021, largely due to the widening trade deficit in manufactured goods with China, Mexico and other foreign countries, according to a 2022 report from the Economic Policy Institute and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

  The Daily Caller | March 28, 2025
• Child care in South Dakota is big expense

  In South Dakota, infant care costs nearly as much as in-state tuition for a four-year public college, a report by the Economic Policy Institute says.

  Aberdeen American News | March 28, 2025
• What families across Minnesota pay for child care

  Child care is one of the biggest expenses families face – it’s more costly than in-state tuition for a public college in 38 states, including Minnesota, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute that uses state-level data from the Department of Labor and Child Care Aware of America to examine the cost of child care across the country.

  “Child care is unaffordable for working families everywhere in the country, and it’s even more unattainable for minimum wage workers and the very workers that administer child care,” Katherine deCourcy, a research assistant for the Economic Policy Institute, said in a news release.

  St. Cloud Times | March 28, 2025
• Pros and cons of no tax on tips as bipartisan support grows

  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 | March 28, 2025
• Supreme Court win for religious tax breaks could mean a loss for unemployment system

  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 | March 28, 2025
• Watch: PBS and NPR heads testify in U.S. House hearing

  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 | March 28, 2025

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