As a resident of DC, your experiences with government services such as public schools, garbage collection, and financial support—positive or negative—can help inform policymakers’ decisions about the funding we collectively raise from taxes and fees and […]
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I am here today to ask the District to end encampment clearings and no encamping zones and to ask the Council to request the agency submits a detailed budget.
I would like to focus my testimony on the proposed, simplified DC Healthcare Alliance recertification process and the need for services for residents with low incomes who have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), also known as acquired brain injuries (ABIs).
Mayor Bowser released a budget plan for fiscal year (FY) 2023 that acknowledges the starkly uneven recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and leverages DC’s growing revenues to take aim at longstanding inequities harming Black residents in particular. But the DC […]
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My testimony today will focus on three recommendations, two for ensuring the District’s recovery is inclusive of undocumented and otherwise excluded workers and one for ensuring equitable and sensible tax policy.
While most children are no longer learning remotely, the mental, emotional, and physical toll of the pandemic on DC students is more pronounced than ever.
More than half of the schools within DC Public Schools (DCPS) have fiscal year (FY) 2023 initial budgets that are lower than their FY 2022 budgets that were boosted by federal funds. Additionally, 73 schools have initial FY 2023 budgets that would not keep up […]
It is critically important that the OCFO improve their accuracy with revenue forecasting, which would better enable the Mayor and DC Council to use DC’s resources fully and effectively to help residents and businesses.
