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.
WASHINGTON – The DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) is pleased to welcome Indivar Dutta-Gupta to its Board of Directors.
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“Sales taxes are regressive, and what that means for folks who are listening, is that it asks more as a share of income from folks with lower incomes and moderate incomes than it does of folks with higher incomes.”
WASHINGTON – New polling from Data for Progress and the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) shows that DC voters support making the tax system more equitable by increasing taxes on wealth. The survey of 724 likely voters in the District, conducted from March […]
“The mayor’s budget takes an ax to the transformative investments—like the Pay Equity Fund—that D.C. has invested in in recent years, prioritizing the wealthy business sector and police force over investments in D.C. residents struggling to get by,” […]