FY 2025 Budget Must Address Hardship with Equitably Raised Revenue
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • January 30, 2024 • Revenue & Budget
[…]
Achieving Vision of Fairly Compensated Early Education Workforce Makes Anticipation of Cost Growth Imperative
By Anne Gunderson • January 24, 2024 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
As DC local fund revenue growth slows, lawmakers must protect the PEF from another funding raid and anticipate the natural growth in cost that accompanies its successful implementation and outcomes in future years.
District Child Tax Credit Bill is a Tool for Tackling Child Poverty and Should be Strengthened
By Erica Williams • January 24, 2024 • Income & Poverty / TANF & Income Support
[…]
Top 5 Percent of DC Earners Pay Lower Share of Income in Taxes than Bottom 95 Percent
By Erica Williams and Nikki Metzgar • January 9, 2024 • Revenue & Budget
Tax advantages for residents at the top privilege white residents—who account for the vast majority of DC’s richest residents—and serve to concentrate their wealth. This comes at the expense of public investments in underserved communities that advance […]
A Holistic and Reparative Agenda for Ending Displacement in DC
By Eliana Golding • November 15, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
[…]
Taxing Capital Gains More Robustly Can Help Reduce DC’s Racial Wealth Gap
By Tazra Mitchell • October 31, 2023 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
[…]
Better Targeted Property Tax Benefits Would Advance Racial Equity
By Eliana Golding and Erica Williams • October 19, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
By better targeting property tax benefits, the District could free up revenue to expand much-needed programs.
DC Can Advance Racial Equity and Black Homeownership through the Property Tax
By Eliana Golding • October 17, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
DC’s single-rate property tax imposes the same rate on $300,000 homes as it does on multi-million-dollar homes. By taxing residential property more progressively, the District would help correct the racist harm of past policies in the tax system and raise […]
Video: How DC Can Become the First Major City to End Chronic Homelessness
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 28, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
[…]
