About the survey In January 2024, the D.C. Policy Center’s Rivlin Initiative on Economic Policy & Competitiveness launched its quarterly Business Sentiments Survey. The goal of the Business Sentiments Survey is to provide detailed, real-time information on the experiences of businesses in D.C. and the broader region to elected officials, the media, and the…

On January 3, 2025, a D.C. Policy Center report was cited by Grocery Drive: Located on Alabama Avenue SE in Ward 8 of the city — a food desert in part because of its lack of supermarkets, according to the D.C. Policy Center — the Ahold Delhaize banner store reintroduced the Healthy Living Center…

On January 13, 2025, a D.C. Policy Center piece on D.C.’s population growth was featured by Urban Turf:  It marked the third year in a row that the city’s population increased, and the DC Policy Center recently looked at how international migration drove that increase.  “The gains from migration resulted from increasing international…