The Mayor’s proposed FY 2011 budget has just been released and many of you, undoubtedly, have a lot of questions. The good news is that at least six DC agencies have agreed to hold public briefings on their proposed FY 2011 budgets. These briefings […]
The Mayor released his proposed FY 2011 budget last Thursday and the Council is on recess this week. What better time to dive into those budget books to figure out how the programs you care about fared? We’ve got an agency budget briefing this week to help […]
The dramatic increase in unemployment in the District during the current economic recession is likely to have led to a growing number of DC residents living in poverty. While official Census Bureau income data for 2009 will not be out until later this year, […]
Last week, the US Commerce Department introduced a new “Supplemental Poverty Measure†to help better estimate the number of Americans who are poor. As its name suggests, the new poverty measure will not replace the current poverty measure. It […]