By broad measures, the District of Columbia’s economy has often looked strong, but those gauges miss massive differences in wellbeing by race and ethnicity that are chronic. While some residents have high-paying, high-powered jobs and extreme wealth, many […]
The limited budget for HC4CC and the constant threats of defunding the PEF entirely are now stymieing progress towards the ultimate goal of early educators having access to health care when they choose to work in any District child care facility.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will have negative effects on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) but there are actions that the DC Council and Department of Human Services (DHS) can take to reduce this harm.
Further cuts to PEF and programmatic changes to the subsidy program that the mayor recently proposed would harm the broader early education ecosystem by reducing wages for educators, driving up operational costs to providers, and restricting the availability […]
The highly uneven distribution of income and wealth in DC is a drag on the economy
Applying a surcharge on proceeds generated from wealth is a simple way for DC to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help struggling residents withstand the local recession and drastic federal and local safety net cuts.
Mayor Bowser has proposed the idea of instituting a waitlist for the child care subsidy program for the first time since 2005 because DC lawmakers did not allocate sufficient funding to keep up with growing enrollment.
Between 2023 and 2024, DC’s child poverty rate increased by 11.2 percentage points to reach 28.1 percent, the largest year-to-year increase in the past decade
Cutting reimbursement rates in the DC child care subsidy program would make it harder for these small businesses to operate as well as reduce opportunities for parents to go to work or school and for children to jumpstart their education in a safe and […]
DC lawmakers made several other changes to the DC Health Care Alliance program that will greatly reduce the number of people enrolled and disproportionately harm Black and Hispanic residents.
