Testimony of Jenny Reed, Policy Analyst, DC Fiscal Policy Institute, at the Public Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Oversight Hearing for the DC Housing Authority, District of Columbia Committee on Housing and Workforce Development
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The recession that has had a crushing effect on DC’s finances now appears to be affecting services for people with disabilities, who make up 1 in 5 District residents. Proposed cuts in the FY 2011 budget have the potential to add up to big reductions […]
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Recently, we’ve fielded lots of good questions about the District’s revenues, like: How much revenue has DC lost during the recession? Which programs are proposed to be cut in the FY 2011 budget? Which services should we include in a sales tax expansion? To […]
The crushing national recession has brought hardship to many DC families. Unemployment has more than doubled over the past two years and public needs are rising dramatically — but the District has fewer resources to meet those needs because revenues […]
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