Visualizing the DC Police Budget
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 3, 2021 • Revenue & Budget
On Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, advocates push for wealth equality in DC
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 3, 2021 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget
Erica Williams, ED of DCFPI, said the two groups have a lot of work to do to address deep inequalities in the city. Williams said the budget amendment will also provide housing vouchers & raise the local EITC, a boost she says will benefit Black women.
Not Excluding the Council
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 2, 2021 • Revenue & Budget
All this has led advocates for excluded worker support like DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s Senior Policy Analyst Doni Crawford to question the zero-sum approach that politicians take when it comes to this cause.
D.C. Council Debates Proposed Tax Increase on the Wealthy
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 29, 2021 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
“With a modest tax increase on D.C.’s wealthiest residents, the council will raise over $170 million each year by fiscal year 2025 to help dismantle structural barriers to opportunity for Black and Brown communities and those living on low incomes,”
In D.C., A New Tax Measure Could Help Eradicate Poverty — If Residents Take Advantage Of It
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 22, 2021 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget
“These are people who work, who are earning wages but still struggle to get by. So it’s basically allowing them to keep more of the money that they’re earning,” says Tazra Mitchell, the policy director for the left-wing D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
Vigil honors Jose Navarro and 42 other individuals who died on D.C. streets in 2021
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 21, 2021 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
At the vigil the Sunday before, both councilmembers said the mayor’s proposed budget of $20.6M for PSH in FY22 — $4M less than in 2021 — is not enough to end chronic homelessness. Other speakers at the vigil included Kate Coventry of DCFPI.
Excluded Workers Rallied Against Another Exclusion Before the Council Budget Vote
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 21, 2021 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget
The $200 million they were asking lawmakers to include in the FY 2022 budget is less than half of what excluded workers would need in order to achieve parity with folks receiving unemployment benefits, according to a report by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
Chairman Mendelson’s Newsletter on Raising Taxes, Annotated
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 20, 2021 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
“We have federal money to allow for some childhood stabilization grants, but we’ve not made investments in raising childcare worker wages,” says Erica Williams, the executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
Erica Williams and Kimberly Perry: By balancing the tax code, we can fund a just recovery
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 19, 2021 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Last month, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and DC Action commissioned a poll that found that 80% of District voters support asking residents making above $250,000 a year to pay more in taxes to fund greater investments in child care and housing.
Ahead of DC Council’s first 2022 budget vote, a look at some of the changes sought by committee chairs
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 19, 2021 • Revenue & Budget
She [Councilmember Nadeau] proposes to raise funds for this effort by taxing residents making more than $250,000 a year at a higher level — an idea opposed by Mendelson but urged by advocates such as the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and DC Action.