Featured Publications & Resources
Blog
Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Takes Important Steps But in Many Ways Leaves Poorest Residents Behind
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 25, 2016 • Revenue & Budget
Blog
Get Ready! The Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Is Coming on Thursday!
By Ed Lazere • March 23, 2016 • Revenue & Budget
Blog
Will the Mayor’s 2017 Budget Take Steps to Ensure Immigrants Have Access to Health Insurance?
By Ed Lazere • March 22, 2016 • Health Equity
Testimony
Testimony of Ed Lazere, Executive Director, At the Public Hearing on Bill 21-620 Homeward DC Omnibus Approval of Facilities Plan for Short-Term Housing for Persons Experiencing Homelessness Act of 2016, March 17, 2016
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 22, 2016 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
Blog
Who Pays the Price When Child Care Subsidies Are Too Low?
By Soumya Bhat • March 21, 2016 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Blog
Cutting TANF Would Increase Family Homelessness
By Kate Coventry • March 16, 2016 • Income & Poverty / Revenue & Budget / TANF & Income Support
Blog
Challenges to Providing Quality Child Care For DC’s Infants and Toddlers
By Soumya Bhat • March 10, 2016 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Report
Solid Footing: Reinforcing the Early Care and Education Economy for Infants and Toddlers in DC
By Soumya Bhat • March 10, 2016 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Testimony
Testimony of Claire Zippel, Housing Policy Associate, At the Performance Oversight Hearing for the Department of Housing and Community Development, March 4, 2016
By Claire Zippel • March 9, 2016 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Blog
DC Should Strengthen Inclusionary Zoning to Create Housing Affordable to Those Who Need it Most
By Claire Zippel • March 9, 2016 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
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Testimony
DC Council Should More Closely Examine Spending on Trickle-Down Economic Strategies
By Shira Markoff • February 25, 2026 • Revenue & Budget
In The News
D.C. attorney general tells CFO to ignore Congress on tax law dispute
Washington Business Journal • February 24, 2026
Report
DC Can Raise $121 Million or More with a Simple Tax on Proceeds from Wealth
By Erica Williams • February 23, 2026
Report
Proposed Child Care Subsidy Waitlist Could Leave District Parents and Providers Paying the Price
By Anne Gunderson • February 20, 2026 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Blog
DC Child Poverty Back to Extreme Level After Short-Lived Progress
By Connor Zielinski • February 19, 2026 • Income & Poverty
Fact Sheets
Cutting Reimbursement Rates in the DC Child Care Subsidy Program Would Cripple Budgets and Force Classrooms to Close
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 17, 2026 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
In The News
District officials to figure out next steps after Congress blocks tax code changes
ABC News 7 • February 13, 2026
Testimony
Cuts to the DC Health Care Alliance Harm DC Residents
By Kate Coventry • February 12, 2026 • Health Equity
In The News
Senate votes to block DC's tax code, but Chairman Mendelson says Congress review period has expired
WUSA9 • February 12, 2026 • Revenue & Budget
In The News
In rare move, Congress exerts power over D.C. and blocks tax policy
The Washington Post • February 12, 2026 • Revenue & Budget
