Jennifer Budoff
FY 2022 Budget Resources - including updated ...
FY 2022 Budget Resources - including updated lookup tool
Jennifer Budoff
New Budget Lookup Tool

Use our new Budget Lookup Tool to navigate through an agency budget to select and analyze its components. You’ll see the results in real-time.

New Budget Lookup Tool
Jennifer Budoff
Which District of Columbia Seniors Can Access ...

The third and final part of our series on The State of Older Adults in the District of Columbia uses four hypothetical D.C. senior households to cost of living and how public benefit programs could help them make ends meet. Only one of the archetypes would be able to afford their basic cost of living without any public assistance.

Which District of Columbia Seniors Can Access Public Benefit Programs
Jennifer Budoff
Budget Office - Year in Review

As 2020 comes to a close, I have been thinking a lot about the high highs and the low lows of this unprecedented year. The Budget Office team entered the year expecting full reserves, hundreds of millions of dollars of additional resources, and ever increasing revenues throughout the financial plan. By March we had delayed the budget transmission and were staring down the greatest public health emergency in a century, a severe economic downturn that left thousands unemployed and businesses on the brink of closure, and tax revenues on the decline.

Jennifer Budoff
The State of Older Adults in the District of ...

Today the Office of the Budget Director’s Research Division released “The State of Older Adults in the District of Columbia: Getting to Know DC’s Older Adults.” This report is the first of a multi-part series that explores the demographic and economic characteristics of the District’s senior population, considers the range of publicly provided benefits available to senior adults in the District and examines how these programs help close the gap between seniors’ living expenses and their earnings and savings.

The State of Older Adults in the District of Columbia: Getting to Know DC’s Older Adults

Budget Office

Budget Summary Reports - Introduction

Dear Budget-Minded Friends,

The FY 2021 Budget and Financial Plan reflects the District of Columbia’s progressive values and envisions a more just and equitable future by investing in policies, programs, and services that tackle the root causes of racial injustice and work to alleviate its symptoms. The District simultaneously faces the greatest public health crisis in living memory, a social reckoning on the compounded effects of generations of racial injustice, an unprecedented number of residents facing job loss, businesses everywhere on the brink of financial ruin, and declining tax revenues. The FY 2021 Budget and Financial Plan recognizes that the District has a tough road ahead, but a recovery that gets us back to “normal” is not good enough. The FY 2021 Budget and Financial Plan guides the District of Columbia towards both financial recovery and racial equity.

The Council’s Budget Office is issuing a seven-part series of reports that highlights some of the most important enhancements that the Council funded in the FY 2021 Budget and Financial Plan. These reports explain and contextualize the Council’s budget enhancements.

On September 10th, we released the first in the series – Introduction to the FY 2021 Budget.

This first report discusses the dual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and historic job losses on the District. Together, they have laid bare the ubiquity and perniciousness of racial inequity in the United States. The report discusses the health and economic disparities that have been so apparent and deeply felt in the context of COVID-19. It also discusses the inequitable structural conditions that exacerbate health disparities.

Stay tuned for the release of the complete series of reports, which will be sent out over the Council’s e-mail system and will be published on www.dccouncilbudget.com:

  • Criminal Justice Reform – Monday, September 14

  • Investing in Education – Wednesday, September 16

  • Social Determinants of Health – Friday, September 18

  • Economic Justice – Monday, September 21

  • Inclusive Governance – Wednesday, September 23

  • Revenue and Resource Reallocation – Friday, September 25

As always, my team and I are available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you for your assistance and support,

Jen Budoff