Featured Publications & Resources
Testimony
To Stabilize Student Enrollment, DC Should Reject Plans to Open New Citywide Schools
By Michael Johnson Jr. • March 1, 2023 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education / Revenue & Budget
Testimony
Initial School Budgets Show DCPS Needs a Plan to Ensure Equitable Funding and Stability
By Qubilah Huddleston • February 24, 2023 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Testimony
Underfunding and Implementation Delays Undermine Progress Toward Ending Homelessness
By Kate Coventry • February 23, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
Testimony
End Encampment Clearings and No Camping Zones
By Kate Coventry • February 16, 2023 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness / Homelessness
Budget Resource Page
Fiscal Year 2024 Budget
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 14, 2023 • Revenue & Budget
With Rising Costs and Continued Hardship, DC Budget Must Sustain Focus on Racial Justice
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • February 14, 2023 • Revenue & Budget
Testimony
DC Must Better Address the Behavioral Health Needs of Students of Color and Girls
By Qubilah Huddleston • February 1, 2023 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education / Health Equity
Report
The High Cost of Denying Statehood to the District of Columbia
By Erica Williams and Nikki Metzgar • January 19, 2023 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Report
DC’s Tools to Create and Preserve Affordable Housing
By Eliana Golding • December 22, 2022 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Blog
Latinas in DC Earn 64 Cents For Every Dollar Earned by White, Non-Hispanic Men
By Nikki Metzgar • December 8, 2022 • Inclusive Economy / Income & Poverty
All Publications & Resources
Press Release
Statement on Final Passage of Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 3, 2025
Press Release
Leaders of Direct Service, Anti-Poverty Organizations in Letter to DC Council: “We are Deeply Alarmed by Proposed Budget”
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 1, 2025
Testimony
The Council Must Fund Childcare in DC
By Anne Gunderson • June 17, 2025 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Press Release
Trump’s Military Parade Another Imposition on District Residents
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • June 17, 2025
In The News
Bowser Budget Proposal Would Scale Back Health Care for Immigrants, Others
The Washington Post • June 16, 2025
In The News
Bowser's budget would avoid tax hikes, move 25K DC residents off Medicaid
NBC News Washington • June 16, 2025
Testimony
The DC Budget Needs to Equitably Grow the Economy
By Shira Markoff • June 12, 2025 • Revenue & Budget
