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In the first fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget vote today, DC Council approved an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to include income-eligible workers no matter their immigration status
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Today, the Mayor released a piece of her fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed budget, offering a window into her priorities for the coming fiscal year. While we await the rest of the budget documents, DC Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director, Erica Williams, […]
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) urges Mayor Bowser to keep the promises that District leaders made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage DC’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just recovery in her upcoming FY 2022 […]
DCFPI calls on the Council to support the “Encampments Protection and Public Health and Safety Emergency Amendment Act of 2021” to halt clearings through hypothermia season while allowing the District to continue housing people staying in encampments.
This year’s budget is one of the most important in DC history. DCFPI praises the Mayor and DC Council for seizing this unprecedented opportunity and making bold investments to address the ongoing suffering caused by the pandemic, which is disproportionately […]
In its first budget vote yesterday, the DC Council met the urgency of the moment by raising taxes on DC’s wealthiest to make ongoing, transformative investments in child care, homelessness prevention, and working residents.
Eighty percent of DC voters support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000 a year to support the District’s long-term economic recovery, a new poll from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and DC Action shows.
The DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) is the grateful recipient of a $100,000 Challenge Grant from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and made possible with support from the Sandler Family Foundation.
This year’s budget is a historic opportunity to repair the damage done by the COVID-19 crisis and to ‘build back better,’ especially for Black and brown residents, who have borne the brunt of the harm.
