On Monday, October 20, City Cast DC interviewed Executive Director Yesim Sayin about the D.C. Council’s daylong session on D.C.’s tax proposals:
“Today, we’ve lost 47,000 jobs over the last two years. Resident employment is down by 1.5 and 1.6 percent each year in the last two years and payrolls earned in the District is down—something I have not seen in my 20 years of work, including during the Great Recession…if our goal is to increase employment, we should not be taxing employment [through the Business Activity Tax (BAT)].”
Listen here: Could New Taxes Fix D.C.’s Economy?