Campaign To Preserve DC Public Services To Launch Thursday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Labor and community advocates will hold a press conference Thursday to launch a campaign to raise progressive taxes to preserve important public services in the District during the current budget crisis. “Important investments that the city has made in schools, libraries, rec centers, and health care could be jeopardized by further rounds of budget cuts,” says Ed Lazere, executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute.