My testimony today will focus on three recommendations, two for ensuring the District’s recovery is inclusive of undocumented and otherwise excluded workers and one for ensuring equitable and sensible tax policy.
While most children are no longer learning remotely, the mental, emotional, and physical toll of the pandemic on DC students is more pronounced than ever.
Today, the Mayor released a piece of her fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed budget, offering a window into her priorities for the coming fiscal year. While we await the rest of the budget documents, DC Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director, Erica Williams, […]
DCFPI acknowledges the city’s resilience and growing revenue but has called on Bowser and the council “to keep the promises made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage D.C.’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just […]
More than half of the schools within DC Public Schools (DCPS) have fiscal year (FY) 2023 initial budgets that are lower than their FY 2022 budgets that were boosted by federal funds. Additionally, 73 schools have initial FY 2023 budgets that would not keep up […]
It is critically important that the OCFO improve their accuracy with revenue forecasting, which would better enable the Mayor and DC Council to use DC’s resources fully and effectively to help residents and businesses.
“We know you can’t just snap your fingers and get 100 percent affordable housing in a project,” says Eliana Golding, an analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “But we can do a better job of asking developers to get on our page versus getting on theirs.”
DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) urges Mayor Bowser to keep the promises that District leaders made last year to residents struggling the most and leverage DC’s growing revenue to build on our progress toward a just recovery in her upcoming FY 2022 […]
This testimony focuses specifically on improving transparency of the DC Public School (DCPS) Enrollment Reserve.
This testimony focuses on ensuring that District officials quickly act on the Early Childhood Educator Compensation Task Force’s recommendations and continue to advance policies aimed at equitable outcomes for early educators and the child care sector.
