DC’s elected officials need to be able to manage its budget, including being able to spend its own revenues and ensure its tax code can support its budget.
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DCFPI’s Recommendations for the Revised FY 2026 Supplemental Budget and FY 2027 Budget
A letter to express our strong opposition to the changes regarding “public charge,” published in the Federal Register on November 19, 2025.
We’re standing with community to build an economy that works for everyone, from the bottom up and the middle out, and to fight for DC’s full autonomy through statehood. Our dreams for a racially- and economically-just DC are not lost as long as we fight […]
The two credits are highly effective, proven tools for reducing child poverty with long-term benefits over children’s life cycle and for the economy broadly.
Taxes and other sources of revenue make up the collective resources we need to meet DC’s growing needs and invest in public services that allow all DC residents to thrive, including early childhood education programs.
At a time when many DC residents—particularly Black and brown residents and those with low incomes—are in crisis, Mayor Bowser continues to push forward disproven, ineffective trickle-down economic strategies that would further benefit the […]
Although DC is not facing a budget shortfall as some expected, the CFO warns that the District is entering a moderate recession this year.