Erica Williams

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Erica Williams

Erica Williams

@EricaWilli

Executive Director @dcfpi. Formerly w/CBPP. Focused on racial, gender, economic justice. Tweets/opinions/thoughts are my own.

Katılım Eylül 2012
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
In DC, growing older while Black means having less. As the District faces both a recession and constrained revenue, it is important that the elected officials focus resources on those who most need support. Read more: dcfpi.org/all/in-dc-grow…
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
How do we thrive? By supporting critical safety net programs and ensuring that DC residents have what they need. Follow along for a look at the COW process, and a deeper dive into the programs we are supporting today!
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
On May 20, we are joining @Under3DC for an advocacy day and rally to protect programs that help families access child care, paid leave, and health care. Join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
We don't need to be giving corporations top-down tax breaks. We need to be supporting our most vulnerable residents. Today @ShiraDC2 is testifying in front of the council to explain why!
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
Disinvesting in the Pay Equity Fund, which raises wages for child care workers, will only exacerbate challenges for families and shrink the economy. wusa9.com/article/news/e…
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Anne Gunderson
Anne Gunderson@AnneTheAnalyst·
This research shows that the Pay Equity Fund continues to benefit families by ensuring quality care, it benefits facilities by attracting educators to the field, and it benefits DC with a major return on investment. What other program can claim such effectiveness?
DC Action@WeAreDCAction

Today we’re hearing from researchers, analysts, parents, and child care center leaders about how impactful the Pay Equity Fund is for children, families, educators, and the economy. According to @MathematicaNow, the PEF has generated $93M in total benefits compared to $76M in costs, w/ a positive ROI: -78% of total program benefits accrued to families -13% of total program benefits to child care facilities -9% of total program benefits to educators

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Anne Gunderson
Anne Gunderson@AnneTheAnalyst·
Woke up early, so I'm going to do a quick thread addressing some of the Pay Equity Fund rumblings I've seen on here over the weekend.
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Erica Williams@EricaWilli·
There are undoubtedly many more damaging cuts in this budget that we’ll uncover in the days ahead, but from the first look, we are beyond disappointed at the unnecessary choices made.
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Erica Williams@EricaWilli·
Yet the strategy laid out by the mayor slashes all of this and invests instead in more property tax abatements and other things that about to corporate subsidies unlikely to strengthen the economy or improve residents’ lives.
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Erica Williams@EricaWilli·
Today’s budget proposal defies logic. Tearing down the pay equity fund, slashing our sustainably funded paid leave program, suppressing public employee pay, among other damaging cuts, all work against economic growth.
DCFPI@DCFPI

Today, the mayor presented her proposed #FY27 budget. DCFPI Executive Director, @EricaWilli, shared: "As-is, the mayor’s proposed budget will harm vulnerable residents and exacerbate racial inequities while squandering DC’s limited resources on corporate giveaways."

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Anne Gunderson
Anne Gunderson@AnneTheAnalyst·
Reducing wages and making it harder to raise children does not stimulate the economy. It just makes it that much harder to live and thrive in the District. This is an attack on DC families
Alex Koma@AlexKomaDC

It's DC budget day, at last! Bowser is revealing her final budget proposal, and it's not a pleasant one (as expected). The biggest cuts: $95m to remove benefits from the paid family leave program and a $60m cut to the pay equity fund: eliminating everything but $ for healthcare.

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Alex Koma
Alex Koma@AlexKomaDC·
With big cuts almost certainly coming to childcare programs in Bowser’s budget, @DCFPI and @Under3DC paid for polling on the issue. They found big majorities support these programs AND would support tax increases to pay for them (like the much-discussed business activity tax)
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Shira
Shira@ShiraDC2·
Because of a long history of systemic racism, Black and Latino DC residents have worse outcomes by every employment measure — for ex. white DC workers’ median hourly wage in 2024 was almost 2x that of Black and Latino workers (1/4)
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Martin Austermuhle
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle·
NEWS: @MayorBowser has very unexpectedly released a report @DDOTDC finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."
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DCFPI@DCFPI·
Our staff testified today before the DC Council's Committee on Human Services. They focused on TANF, housing, & SNAP policies, & on how the council can mitigate harm in the budget. They only spoke for a few minutes, but we have in-depth analysis at dcfpi.org
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Erica Williams@EricaWilli·
@maustermuhle @crum_madison_ @TedLeonsis We do have to pay the debt service and that comes out of the operating pot. For example the borrowing we’ll do for RFK will cost us like $35m annually in debt service for 30yrs. That’s real money and comes at the expense of other priorities.
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Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle·
@crum_madison_ @TedLeonsis But… technicalities matter! The $515 million D.C. put into Capital One wouldn’t just otherwise be available to be spent on ERAP, SNAP, or any other program.
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Madison Crum
Madison Crum@crum_madison_·
The budget is a reflection of societies priorities, no matter the technicalities. District tax dollars spent in one area naturally means less resources in others. I’d rather invest in early education workers, ERAP, SNAP,etc than help @TedLeonsis renovate his locker rooms
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle

In short, whether D.C. should put money into a stadium is a critical debate, and yes, we do end up paying for it in a way by paying down the debt with the operating budget. But it’s not that $1 billion going to a stadium could have gone to, say, rental assistance.

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@Under3DC @ShiraDC2 @DCFPI @MayorBowser @DDOTDC @maustermuhle @crum_madison_ @TedLeonsis