At tomorrow’s preliminary vote on the fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget, DC Council is expected to take up the MPD Budget and Staffing Transparency Budget Support Act Amendment.
This Mother’s Day, DC Councilmembers have the opportunity to celebrate the District’s mothers, birthing parents, and caregivers through action.
Creating and preserving truly affordable housing is critical to disrupting historical harm and advancing racial equity in the District and this massive investment could go a long way towards addressing DC’s affordable housing crisis
DCFPI fully supports this legislation to disregard monthly payments of the DC Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as income when determining eligibility for other public benefits. We urge the Committee to also consider some modifications to this legislation and […]
Since 2001, the Clean Hands law has disproportionately prevented Washingtonian’s with low incomes from renewing their drivers, occupational, or business licenses due to any fees, fines, or taxes owed to the DC government totaling $100 or more.
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.
My testimony focuses on additional investments that are needed to boost the behavioral health of students in the District.
Today, I will focus my testimony on the need to make essential investments in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget to both end homelessness and to ensure that the District is on a path to creating and preserving truly affordable housing
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Last year, DC lawmakers expanded the credit to make it the most generous in the nation, but it is not the most inclusive. Currently, it excludes roughly more than 5,000 low-paid working households because they have at least one person who is undocumented.