Early Childhood Investments Make Early Educator Compensation More Equitable and Stabilize the Child Care Sector
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My testimony focuses on health care benefits as a crucial part of “parity,” potential effects on workers’ eligibility for public benefits, and the next steps that the District should take to secure equitable wages for DC’s early educators.
Today, 54 organizations led by the Strengthening Families Through Behavioral Health Coalition submitted a letter to Mayor Bowser outlining the investments required to ensure the School-Based Behavioral Health Program (SBBH) can be successful at servings the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate our public health and key sectors of our economy, with Black and brown residents bearing the brunt of these hardships due to longstanding inequities in health care, education, employment, and wealth-building […]
DCFPI calls on the Council to support the “Encampments Protection and Public Health and Safety Emergency Amendment Act of 2021” to halt clearings through hypothermia season while allowing the District to continue housing people staying in encampments.