The District’s lowest-income families who currently pay more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities each month could have an extra $10,000 in their pockets each year if DC creates more affordable housing.
DC Councilmember Charles Allen’s proposal to give most adult residents a $100 monthly transit subsidy and add new bus lines in neighborhoods that need them the most would go a long way—but the bill has serious flaws.
A new study has found that DC’s returning citizens—those recently released from incarceration—make up one-third of the city’s individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Press statement from DCFPI on the Mayor’s announcement to increase the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula.
Despite 10 years of a booming DC economy, unemployment among Black DC residents remains higher than before the recession, and Black incomes have failed to grow, according to a new report.
A new report from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) reveals that the budgeting tool DC uses to project rising costs fails to take into account current services funding levels, and recently began omitting education altogether.
A new report released today by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) finds that choices made by DCPS over how to allocate funds to its schools end up reinforcing, rather than reducing, inequities by geography, race, and income. The report, “The Funding […]
A new report released today by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute uncovers a $740 million gap over the last seven years between actual funding for DC’s public and public charter schools and the level that would be considered minimally adequate.
New proposed legislation, the Critical Risk Rate School Funding Designation Act of 2019, represents a major step toward education equity in DC.