“We’re at really high capacity, and that’s concerning because we likely will have another heat wave,” Kate Coventry, deputy director of legislative strategy for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute and a voting member of ICH, said in an interview.
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“We really have to stop picking apart this program and playing with the salaries, healthcare, and livelihoods of the women who teach and care for our children,” says Anne Gunderson, an education policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
Ultimately, the mayor and DC Council failed to meet the moment and equitably raise adequate levels of revenue to resolve dire housing needs, make greater progress on transformative change, and avoid a sales tax increase that will hit low- and moderate-income […]
