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The High Cost of Denying Statehood to the District of Columbia

By Erica Williams and Nikki Metzgar • January 19, 2023 • DC Statehood

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DC’s Tools to Create and Preserve Affordable Housing

By Eliana Golding • December 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness

As prosperity and population in DC grow, residents with low incomes increasingly struggle with the District’s high and rising housing costs.

Latinas in DC Earn 64 Cents For Every Dollar Earned by White, Non-Hispanic Men

By Nikki Metzgar • December 8, 2022 • Inclusive Economy / Income & Poverty

For Latinas in DC, the picture is less egregious, but still stark. Latinas earn 64 percent of what white, non-Hispanic men do in a year and it takes them nearly 19 months to make up the difference…

Testimony on the Green New Deal for Housing Amendment Act of 2022

By Eliana Golding • November 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness

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Testimony at the Public Oversight Hearing on DHS Implementation of Housing Investments

By Kate Coventry • November 4, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness

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DC’s Extreme Wealth Concentration Exacerbates Racial Inequality, Limits Economic Opportunity

By Erica Williams • October 20, 2022 • Inclusive Economy

Roughly 1,500 DC households based on the number of tax filers in 2019 have net worth over $30 million, and these same tax units hold nearly half (46 percent) of all wealth in the District.

Reflections on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day: DC Making Progress on Wage Equity, But There is Still Work To Be Done

By Claire Goldberg • September 21, 2022 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education / Inclusive Economy / Income & Poverty

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DCFPI Has a New Mission Aimed at Creating an Anti-Racist Future

By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 20, 2022

When we identify, advocate for, and win policy solutions that intentionally lift up and protect DC’s Black and brown communities, everyone will benefit.