The Trump administration deployed the National Guard in August 2025 to tackle crime and homelessness, yet evidence shows housing is the best solution. Several large cities, including DC, reduced homelessness by investing in permanent housing.
Since the pandemic, many families have decided to leave major urban areas, with DC seeing a large decline. Learn how the DC Council can encourage families to stay through early wealth-building programs and other investments.
The federal government is a key regional employer, and changes to this sector could increase unemployment, decrease housing production, reduce revenue generated through personal income taxes, and more.
In the DC metropolitan area, where federal workers make up more than 9 percent of the workforce, a 50 percent reduction in the federal workforce would raise the unemployment rate to more than 7 percent.
The guaranteed income pilot aims to provide greater economic stability and increase upward mobility for its target populations: young people who’ve aged out of foster care and senior adults ages 60 and older.
Differences in delivery of safe hospital care across three racial and ethnic groups in DC appeared to be driven by unequal access to the safest hospitals as opposed to differences in patient care within hospitals.
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