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
Report
Chronic Racial Inequality Holds Back Workers and Equitable Economic Growth
By Shira Markoff • March 9, 2026 • Inclusive Economy
Testimony
Child Care Workers Deserve Quality, Affordable Health Care
By Anne Gunderson • March 6, 2026 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Testimony
Implementation of Federal Cuts to SNAP is Critical to Preventing Harm to DC Residents
By Tazra Mitchell • March 6, 2026 • Income & Poverty
Testimony
DC Families Deserve High-Quality and Affordable Child Care
By DC Fiscal Policy Institute • March 4, 2026 • Early Child & Pre-K to 12 Education
Testimony
DC Council Should More Closely Examine Spending on Trickle-Down Economic Strategies
By Shira Markoff • February 25, 2026 • Inclusive Economy
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
