On September 15, 2025, Senior Education Policy Researcher Hannah Mason was quoted in The Atlantic: So far, the city says that attendance appears stable. But “everyone is on the lookout” for how the federal presence might affect student absences, Hannah Mason, an education researcher at the D.C. Policy Center, told me—although she emphasized that…

On September 6, 2025, a D.C. Policy Center report was referenced by The Guardian: Research from the DC Policy Center shows the juvenile arrest rate in Washington DC is nearly double the national rate. Read More: ‘Not addressing the issues’: DC residents wary of Trump’s national guard deployment even amid youth crimeAdditional reading: D.C. Voices: Juvenile…

One objective of the second Trump administration has been to overhaul and reduce the size of the federal government. In the first few months, hard data showed no substantial decline in federal government employment, which was not unexpected. But with seven months of data now available, reductions in federal employment have become…