Featured Publications & Resources
Blog
Managing the District’s Debt: How a Debt Cap Can Serve as an Important Fiscal Oversight Tool While Also Allowing the District to Achieve its Development Goals
By Jenny Reed • October 24, 2008 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget
Testimony
Testimony of Ed Lazere, Executive Director, At the Public Oversight Roundtable on The Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2009 Gap-Closing Proposal, District of Columbia Committee of the Whole
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • October 17, 2008
Blog
How Should the District Address Its Revenue Shortfall? Some Guiding Principles
By Jenny Reed • September 30, 2008 • Revenue & Budget
Testimony
Testimony of Jenny Reed, Research Associate at the Public Hearing on B17-0914, the Limitation on Borrowing and Establishment of the Operating Cash Reserve Act of 2008, District of Columbia Committee of the Whole
By Jenny Reed • September 22, 2008 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Blog
Poverty In DC Remains As High As At The End Of The Last Recession, New Census Bureau Data Show
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • August 26, 2008 • Income & Poverty
Testimony
Testimony of Lindsay Clark, Policy Analyst, DC Fiscal Policy Institute For the Public Roundtable regarding Strategies to Eliminate the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s Current Waiting List of Individuals Seeking Housing Choice Vouchers and Placement in Public Housing
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • July 14, 2008 • Affordable Housing & Ending Homelessness
Testimony
Testimony of Jenny Reed, Research Associate, For the Public Hearing on The City Market at O Street Tax Increment Financing Act of 2008 District of Columbia Committee on Finance and Revenue
By Jenny Reed • July 2, 2008 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Testimony
Testimony Of Ed Lazere, Executive Director At the Public Hearing on Bill 17-745, The Youth Mentoring Recruitment Incentive Amendment Act of 2008 District of Columbia Committee on Human Services
By Ed Lazere • June 25, 2008 • Revenue & Budget / Taxes
Blog
Making the Southwest Waterfront Bond Financing Act the Best Deal for the District of Columbia: Four Changes Could Potentially Save DC Millions
By Jessica Fulton • June 25, 2008 • Inclusive Economy / Revenue & Budget
Report
Economists’ Statement on the Likely Impact of a Professional Soccer Stadium in the District of Columbia
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • June 10, 2008 • Inclusive Economy
All Publications & Resources
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
Testimony
The Council Needs to Improve Nutrition for Residents Incarcerated in the DOC
By Connor Zielinski • June 12, 2025 • Health Equity
Testimony
The District's Pay Equity Fund is a Success and it Deserves Full Funding
By Anne Gunderson • June 12, 2025 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education