The D.C. Council has given a thumbs-up to a bill aimed at lowering barriers for finding work for residents with criminal records.
The DC Fiscal Policy Institute found that three in five people experiencing homelessness in DC were previously incarcerated, and many of those people connect their homelessness to previous incarceration.
Kate Coventry, a senior policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, testified in favor of the bill, arguing that D.C. residents who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness also experience discrimination at high rates. “This legislation […]
“In 2019, 92 percent of school-based arrests in D.C. were Black students, according to D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.”
The District’s fiscal year began on Oct. 1, but while the level of spending is set a year in advance, the city’s budget is much like a family’s, according to the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization. In effect, expenses can be shifted and […]
Miller said his food items are needed more than ever, noting the sagging economy due to the pandemic. His observations are backed by data from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute which said in a Sept. 17 report–“Before the Pandemic, D.C.’s Economy was […]
“In mid-October, an estimated 34,000 D.C. tenants, 12%, were behind on rent,” said Eliana Golding, a policy analyst for the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. “This bill under consideration would help disrupt displacement and evictions.”
“We all just have a responsibility to remind our policy makers that the pandemic is not an excuse to not make progress,” says DCFPI’s Qubilah Huddleston.
“We also have to be thinking about these workers, too, when we talk about recovery, and that’s something that D.C. has unique oversight over.”