What’s In the Approved FY 2020 Budget for Employment and Training?
By Kamolika Das and Doni Crawford • October 10, 2019 • Inclusive Economy / Jobs & Training
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Salary Transparency is Essential Step Towards Ensuring All Students Have an Effective Teacher
By Alyssa Noth • October 9, 2019 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
All students in DC deserve an effective teacher, and full salary transparency in DC’s public charter sector is a crucial step towards making the teaching profession fairer and more sustainable. DCFPI supports the provision of Councilmember Allen’s Public […]
Testimony of Doni Crawford on the Prohibition of Marijuana Testing Act and Medical Marijuana Program Patient Employment Protection Amendment Act
By Doni Crawford • October 9, 2019 • Inclusive Economy / Jobs & Training
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Testimony of Alyssa Noth At the Public Hearing on the Public School Transparency Amendment Act of 2019
By Alyssa Noth • October 9, 2019 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
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What’s In the Approved Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for Health Care?
By Ed Lazere • October 9, 2019 • Health Equity
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What’s In the Approved Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for Interim Disability Assitance
By Kate Coventry • October 9, 2019 • Income & Poverty / TANF & Income Support
The total budget for IDA is $3.3 million, a decrease of just over $1 million from FY 2019. It also is well below the peak budget of $10.9 million in FY 2009.
What’s In the Approved Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for Homeless Services?
By Kate Coventry • October 8, 2019 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
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Promoting Equitable Housing Policy Through the Comprehensive Plan
By Kamolika Das • October 7, 2019 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
The Comp Plan can either uphold and exacerbate existing inequities throughout the District, or lawmakers can design it to stem the tide of economic and residential segregation. We urge the Council to preserve the protections and vision included in the draft […]
Living Wages Help Build an Economy that Works Better
By Tazra Mitchell • October 1, 2019 • Income & Poverty
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Defending Our Neighbors Who Live in Encampments
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • September 25, 2019 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
A focus on moving encampments doesn’t solve anything because it fails to address the underlying causes—a severe shortage of affordable housing and a shelter system in need of improvement. Clearing encampments one day usually means tents show up around the […]
