DC Council Makes Progress but Fails to Raise Adequate Revenue for Critical Programs at First Budget Vote
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“It’s one piece of a larger law and larger suite of investments meant to support the whole child,” said Anne Gunderson, a senior policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
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DC’s Local Fund budget—the portion primarily funded by residents’ income, property, and sales tax dollars–has held steady over the last 20 years, when taken as a share of the economy.
On Mother’s Day, the DC Council should honor moms and the commitments it made to families by restoring funding for the PEF and the child care subsidy program to ensure accessible, affordable, and high-quality child care for all District parents.
“Now the mayor’s trying to tell us that the pay equity fund is too expensive, while pouring our tax dollars into big businesses downtown,” Anne Gunderson with the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute said.
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