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In Historic Budget Vote, DC Council Makes Transformative Investments But Misses Important Opportunities for Equity

Statement from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute: DC Council’s Budget Takes Big Step in Ensuring a Just Recovery and Future

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A Modest Tax Increase Won’t Drive Out High-Income Residents or Small Businesses

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Work to Advance Racial Equity in the Budget Is Incomplete

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Say it louder for the people in the back: wealthy residents WON'T move out of DC because of a modest tax increase. "It’s unrealistic to think that high-income earners would leave this amazing city just to save what amounts to pocket change for them." Go check out this article!

Michael Havlin@HavlinMichael

Wrote this in response to claims that wealthy would flee DC due to tax increase. A total nonsense argument. Couldn’t have done it without research and work from @DCFPI @FairBudgetDC @charlesallen @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @BrianneKNadeau @jesserbnwtz + many others https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/28/dc-wont-lose-residents-because-modest-tax-increase-wealthy/

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ExcludedWorkersDC @DontExcludeMeDC·

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We are still in the "excluded" column. $35M is less than 18% of our ask, which is less than half of what "included" workers got in unemployment and stimulus over the course of 17 months.

@councilofdc We need you to do better! Read in @DCFPI post below

#DontExcludeMe #UpTheFunds https://twitter.com/DCFPI/status/1420083016030904338

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NEW BLOG POST: The Council had their first vote to advance the FY22 budget last week. The vote was historic in many ways, including tax increases on the wealthy and transformational investments, but it also failed to support some of our community members. https://bit.ly/3i5Tozm

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Leah Sakala @leahjsakala·

27 Jul

.@Libbywd and I worked with the amazing team at @DCFPI to create a tool to demystify the DC MPD’s budget, just released last night, because how we spend public resources matters: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/eliana.golding/viz/MPDDataVisualizationTool7_26/0Homepage (2/5)

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Advocating for a Better DC for All

In Historic Budget Vote, DC Council Makes Transformative Investments But Misses Important Opportunities for Equity

Statement from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute: DC Council’s Budget Takes Big Step in Ensuring a Just Recovery and Future

A Modest Tax Increase Won’t Drive Out High-Income Residents or Small Businesses

Work to Advance Racial Equity in the Budget Is Incomplete

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