When the CARES Act passed in March, self-employed persons were granted eligibility to apply for and receive unemployment benefits for the first time in history through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. The self-employed...
On July 1, 2020, the minimum wage in the District of Columbia will be $15 per hour. Our recently published study in the Economic Development Quarterly, finds that a $15 minimum wage will produce significant income gains for most of the...
With Uber and other ridesharing services becoming a common transit option for some DC residents, we wanted to get a sense of when someone might substitute an Uber trip for a Metrorail trip. To do this, we plotted data on travel time and cost,...
Around 829,000 people work in D.C. (within the city-proper), and about 26 percent of them are immigrants. Today, the ...
Subscribe to this blog