The District’s fiscal year began on Oct. 1, but while the level of spending is set a year in advance, the city’s budget is much like a family’s, according to the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization. In effect, expenses can be shifted and […]
Miller said his food items are needed more than ever, noting the sagging economy due to the pandemic. His observations are backed by data from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute which said in a Sept. 17 report–“Before the Pandemic, D.C.’s Economy was […]
“In mid-October, an estimated 34,000 D.C. tenants, 12%, were behind on rent,” said Eliana Golding, a policy analyst for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “This bill under consideration would help disrupt displacement and evictions.”
“We all just have a responsibility to remind our policy makers that the pandemic is not an excuse to not make progress,” says DCFPI’s Qubilah Huddleston.
“We also have to be thinking about these workers, too, when we talk about recovery, and that’s something that D.C. has unique oversight over.”
According to data from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, in 2014, 22 percent of Hispanic residents lived below the poverty line compared to 7 percent of white, non-Hispanic residents.
The chart in the post was copied from a 2018 report, “Economic Inequality in DC Reflects Disparities in Income, Wages, Wealth, and Economic Mobility. Policy Solutions Should Too,” by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute
“‘For people returning to D.C. from incarceration, it often means coming home to homelessness,’ says Kate Coventry, the author of the DCFPI report. ‘They face all the same issues that other low-income folks in the District face, but they also face some […]
he possibility is something lawmakers should consider, according to Tazra Mitchell of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “We have to make sure there are no unintentional harsh effects of pushing people off of SNAP or TANF if they’re accessing a guaranteed […]