“Councilmember Frumin has already done a lot of work trying to track down how much the city is investing in charters versus how much DCPS is getting for its facilities and whether that’s enough, and I really think those conversations will keep happening […]
A look at the past and present of local inequality, and how we can fight to fix it.
“There were two really important studies that came out last week, one from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute and one from the Federal City Council, both of them pointing to significant economic impact on the District that we are not a state.”
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.
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.