On September 4, 2026, the D.C. Policy Center was quoted in Insurance Business magazine about D.C’s paid family leave program: Between FY2021 and FY2026, D.C. spent approximately $700 million on program benefits while transferring roughly $1.1 billion in dedicated payroll tax revenue to unrelated government expenditures, according to DC Policy Center analysis…

On September 3, 2026, D.C. Policy Center Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in the Washington Times about job losses in the District: Factors driving the shortfall include fallout from pandemic-era telework, plunging commercial real estate values and Trump administration cuts to the federal workforce. Yesim Sayin, executive director of the nonpartisan…

Executive Summary High-cost cities increasingly depend on workers whose wages have not kept pace with housing costs. In the District of Columbia, teachers, nurses, first responders, childcare providers, hospitality workers, and other service employees sustain the city’s core institutions. Yet many cannot afford to live near their workplaces. The result is a…