With fewer restrictions and the over $3 billion in potential revenue statehood would offer, the District could take greater steps to minimize economic struggle…
“This is really a racial and economic justice issue,” said Erica Williams, Executive Director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
The lack of DC statehood means a loss of up to $3.2 billion annually in potential revenue, according to the estimate developed by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute in a new analysis released this morning.
As Congress continues to debate the debt ceiling, DC faces high costs due to its lack of statehood: in addition to lacking votes in Congress, analysis shows that our taxation without representation leads to $3.2 billion (!!!) in foregone revenue.
As Campaigns Manager, Anthony will work closely with colleagues and advocacy partners to develop, implement, and advise on strategic policy campaigns informed by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s (DCFPI) research and analysis.
More than a third of the city’s child-care workers live in poverty, according to the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and Marshall hated that her employees were among them.
“The short of it is the question of economic policy. In our society, housing is a commodity and not treated as a basic human right,” said Golding, an affordable housing and workforce development policy analyst with the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.
“The chairman is right in wanting stability, but I think there was a missed opportunity to do more engagement with [D.C. Public Schools], the executive, the community,” said Qubilah Huddleston, a senior policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.
Kate Coventry, senior policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and voting member of ICH, said staff vacancies — which have since been filled — contributed to the plan’s delay. But she said that the city is still able to provide services before […]
When we identify, advocate for, and win policy solutions that intentionally lift up and protect DC’s Black and brown communities, everyone will benefit.
