DC Council Needs to Address Displacement and Support Tenants
By Mychal Cohen • March 3, 2025 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
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DC Expected to Lose $1 Billion in Revenue Through the Financial Plan
By Tazra Mitchell • March 3, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
Local revenues are expected to decline by more than $1 billion over the next three years compared to previous estimates, largely due to federal layoffs steep enough to throw DC into a mild recession, according to the Chief Financial Officer’s new revenue […]
Department of Corrections Must Improve Nutrition for Incarcerated Residents
By Michael Johnson Jr. • February 27, 2025 • Inclusive Economy
This testimony focuses on the continued need to improve nutritional options for residents in DOC facilities. Specifically, to dedicate funding for the full implementation of Section 32 of Secure DC. In addition, the Council should also work with the DOC to […]
House Republicans Set the Stage to Slash Health and Food Assistance to Give Massive Tax Cuts to the Wealthy
By Erica Williams • February 26, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
If Congress ultimately follows this plan, many tens of millions of Americans—including hundreds of thousands of DC residents—will not receive the medical care they need, go hungry, and experience increased hardship, all so the rich get richer. DC leaders […]
Baby Bonds and DC’s Racial Wealth Gap
By Tazra Mitchell • February 20, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
Baby Bonds Could Help Close DC’s Outsized Racial Wealth Gap, But Only If DC Implements the Program and Restores Robust Design Features
If You Build It: Recommendations for Increasing the Supply of Affordable Child Care to Meet District Demand
By Anne Gunderson and Diana Chavez Cruz • February 19, 2025 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
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FY 2026 Budget Must Help DC Residents Weather the Coming Storm
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 6, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
As Mayor Bowser develops her fiscal year (FY) 2025 supplemental budget and FY 2026 budget, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) urges consideration and prioritization of the following recommendations.
DC Can Do More to Ensure Tax System is Fair
By Erica Williams • February 5, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
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A Business Activity Tax Would Make DC’s Tax System More Equitable While Raising Revenue
By Nick Johnson, Tazra Mitchell and Erica Williams • January 30, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
By enacting a Business Activity Tax—a new, simple, broad-based value-added tax, DC would make business taxation fairer and more racially equitable while raising significant revenue for the District.
