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• Fully Fund the Second Chance Amendment Act

  • April 22, 2024
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Michael Johnson Jr.
  Criminal Legal System Jobs

• DC’s Labor Market is Failing Young Black Workers

  • March 18, 2024
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Caitlin C. Schnur
  Income Inequality Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Executive Summary: Achieving Vision of Fairly Compensated Early Education Workforce Makes Anticipation of Cost Growth Imperative

  • February 6, 2024
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Anne Gunderson
  Education Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Excluded Workers Demand Inclusion: $200 Million Investment is Essential Though Less than Half of What’s Needed

  • June 30, 2021
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Doni Crawford

  In this pivotal moment, DC policymakers must spend federal rescue funds in a timely way, with a laser focus on addressing the racial inequities that have excluded Black and brown […]

  COVID19 Immigration Income Inequality Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Excluded Workers Demand Inclusion: $200 Million Investment is Essential Though Less than Half of What’s Needed

  • June 24, 2021
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Doni Crawford

  In this pivotal moment, DC policymakers must spend federal rescue funds in a timely way, with a laser focus on addressing the racial inequities that have excluded Black and brown […]

  COVID19 Immigration Wages

• First In Line: Why the District Must Take a Reparative Approach to Recreational Cannabis Policy for Black and Brown Communities

  • February 16, 2021
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Doni Crawford

  This new Council Period, DC policymakers can continue advancements in racial equity (as envisioned in the Racial Equity Achieves Results Amendment Act of 2020) and help build a just economic […]

  Criminal Legal System Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Black Workers Matter: How the District’s History of Exploitation & Discrimination Continues to Harm Black Workers

  • January 28, 2020
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Doni Crawford and Kamolika Das

  The District’s economy is strong on a number of important indicators such as employment, job growth, and increased wages, but the overall trends mask staggering racial inequalities. The District’s deep […]

  Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Lessons from the Waterfront: Economic Development Projects Must Do More to Lessen DC’s Worsening Income Inequality

  • October 12, 2017
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Ilana Boivie

  The District of Columbia can use its economic development efforts to stem the tide of the city’s rising income inequality, but it is failing to do so. Instead, the District’s […]

  Economic Development Jobs Unions and Worker Power Wage Theft Wages

• The Universal Paid Leave Act Makes the Most Sense for Workers, Employers, and Taxpayers

  • October 3, 2017
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Ilana Boivie
  Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• Economic Powerhouse: DC is Growing Faster than the Region

  • May 23, 2017
  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Ilana Boivie

  The DC economy is strong and increasingly diverse, with impressive improvements in a number of indicators over the past decade. The District is now a clear engine of economic vitality […]

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