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DC Council took important steps to protect renters and transit riders, but chose corporate tax cuts over homeless residents.

Tell the DC Council that sales tax revenue should fund services for people who need them, not corporate tax cuts for businesses that don't.

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The DC Council is voting TODAY on three important bills, and they need to hear from you about why they should vote YES on all three!

The Campaign Finance Reform Amendment Act of 2018 (B22-0107) would limit contributions by District contractors and strengthen the District’s campaign finance laws. This is a critical step to [...]

Real policy change involves elected officials at all levels of local government. Here are the basics about how we vote in Washington, DC.

As a young woman with two incurable autoimmune diseases, my life is already pretty hard. This year alone, I have endured one hospitalization, two biopsies, two colonoscopies, and five IV drug [...]

Last year I wrote in an op-ed in the Afro, “[w]hen I hear about D.C. [elected officials] who are trying to destroy our paid leave law, I imagine they must be lucky that they haven’t yet had to [...]

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Many employers are not following the law, and too many employees are living in poverty as a result. Some today have called for better enforcement of our existing laws. But promises of more [...]