Featured Publications & Resources
Blog
A Modest Tax Increase Won’t Drive Out High-Income Residents or Small Businesses
By Tazra Mitchell and Erica Williams • July 19, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
Videos
NEW VIDEOS: Why DC’s Wealthiest Should Pay their Fair Share
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 12, 2021 • Taxes
Blog
“Tax Flight” is a Myth; DC Should Raise Taxes on the Wealthy for a Just Recovery
By Erica Williams • June 25, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
Press Release
80 Percent of DC Voters Support Raising Local Taxes on High-Income Residents to Sustain DC’s Economic Recovery, with Strong Support for Investments in Child Care and Housing
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • June 22, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
In The News
D.C., please tax me more to fund recovery for all our residents
Washington Post • June 4, 2021 • Taxes
Report
American Rescue Plan Offers DC a Down Payment on a Just Recovery and Future
By Tazra Mitchell, Kate Coventry and Qubilah Huddleston • April 30, 2021 • Budget / COVID-19
Blog
Failure to Invest in Critical Housing Needs is a Failure to Address a Deeply Racialized Public Health Crisis
By Doni Crawford and Eliana Golding • March 12, 2021 • Affordable Housing / Budget
Press Release
The American Rescue Plan Is The Relief DC Residents Need
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 11, 2021 • COVID-19
Testimony
Testimony of Tazra Mitchell at the Performance Oversight Hearing for the Office of Chief Financial Officer DC Council Committee on Economic and Business Economic Development
By Tazra Mitchell • March 10, 2021 • Budget / Economic Development
All Publications & Resources
In The News
In D.C., A New Tax Measure Could Help Eradicate Poverty — If Residents Take Advantage Of It
DCist • July 22, 2021 • Budget / Income & Poverty
Press Release
Statement from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute: DC Council’s Budget Takes Big Step in Ensuring a Just Recovery and Future
By Erica Williams • July 21, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
In The News
Vigil honors Jose Navarro and 42 other individuals who died on D.C. streets in 2021
Street Sense Media • July 21, 2021 • Homelessness
In The News
Excluded Workers Rallied Against Another Exclusion Before the Council Budget Vote
Washington City Paper • July 21, 2021 • Budget / Income & Poverty
In The News
Chairman Mendelson’s Newsletter on Raising Taxes, Annotated
Washington City Paper • July 20, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
Blog
A Modest Tax Increase Won't Drive Out High-Income Residents or Small Businesses
By Tazra Mitchell • July 19, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
In The News
Erica Williams and Kimberly Perry: By balancing the tax code, we can fund a just recovery
The DC Line • July 19, 2021 • Budget / Taxes
In The News
Ahead of DC Council’s first 2022 budget vote, a look at some of the changes sought by committee chairs
The DC Line • July 19, 2021 • Budget
Blog
Work to Advance Racial Equity in the Budget Is Incomplete
By Doni Crawford • July 16, 2021 • Budget
Blog
The Latest Plan for Increased Child Care Educator Pay Offers Too Little, Too Late
By Heather Lavoie • July 15, 2021 • Budget / Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
