The D.C. Policy Center’s Rivlin Initiative for Economic Policy and Competitiveness recently finished the fourth round of its Quarterly Business Sentiments Survey for 2025. Conducted online for two weeks in October, this round asked respondents about their six-month expectations for the local, regional, and national economies, and the effects of recent immigration…

On December 31, 2025, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in The Washington Post: “Death by a thousand cuts,” said Yesim Sayin, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center, a local think-tank. The significance of 2025, she said, lies less in any single data point and more in the earthquake it has…

Today, I am testifying in opposition to B26-0422, the Glazier Licensing Standards and Certification Act, as the bill would add new requirements and financial burdens for a small group of skilled specialty trade workers without a clear safety or quality problem that existing rules cannot address.  At a moment when the District…