“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 […]
“If we want to fund reparations, we have to tax wealth,” Mitchell said. “[It’s] made possible due to centuries of discrimination and anti-Black oppression.”
WASHINGTON – The DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) is pleased to announce the election of George Jones as Chair of its Board of Directors.
“This is the worst budget for housing since the mayor became the mayor,” says Kate Coventry, deputy director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and a longtime housing wonk.
WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, the DC Council cast its second and final vote on the Local Budget Act (LBA), which sets the budget for each DC government agency and program for fiscal year (FY) 2025.
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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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“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.