Want to understand how Mayor Fenty proposes to close the $500 million budget gap? Curious where the major cuts are in each agency? Interested in how the city’s safety net is impacted, and whether there are cuts to programs such as child care or […]
You may not think that a hearing on the Exemptions and Abatements Information Requirements Act would draw a big crowd. But this week, a diverse group of organizations and residents — including the DC Fiscal Policy Institute — came out to testify […]
The nation’s capital has always been a tale of two cities – affluent Washington, DC on the front page of the paper and the persistent poverty of the District of Columbia hidden in the Metro section. Nothing illustrates this divide more starkly […]
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