ABOUT
DC Progress’s vision is the transformation of DC into one of the most commercially vibrant cities in the United States. We will do this by providing independent, non-partisan, and objective policy proposals on ways to improve DC’s business environment.
DC PROGRESS BLOG
Click here to access DC Progress’s blog and learn more about public policy issues facing DC’s economy
PUBLICATIONS
TAXES
- Higher taxes impede DC’s Growth
EDUCATION
- The $100,000 Question
- Improving K-12 Education in the District
of Columbia: A Blueprint for Lasting
Reform to Boost Academic
Achievement
LABOR
- Green-Collar Jobs -- or Con Jobs?
- The True Cost of The Washington
Nationals Ballpark Project Labor
Agreement
CITY MANAGEMENT
- Systemic Management problems
in the District
- Non-Profits Can Help the District's
Failing Economy
PUBLIC SPACES
- DC’s Green Spaces Looking
Not So Green
REGULATIONS
- In DC, it’s a closed-arm approach
to business that prevails
DC Progress’s vision is the transformation of DC into one of the most commercially vibrant cities in the United States. We will do this by providing independent, non-partisan, and objective policy proposals on ways to improve DC’s business environment.
DC PROGRESS BLOG
Click here to access DC Progress’s blog and learn more about public policy issues facing DC’s economy
PUBLICATIONS
TAXES
- Higher taxes impede DC’s Growth
EDUCATION
- The $100,000 Question
- Improving K-12 Education in the District
of Columbia: A Blueprint for Lasting
Reform to Boost Academic
Achievement
LABOR
- Green-Collar Jobs -- or Con Jobs?
- The True Cost of The Washington
Nationals Ballpark Project Labor
Agreement
CITY MANAGEMENT
- Systemic Management problems
in the District
- Non-Profits Can Help the District's
Failing Economy
PUBLIC SPACES
- DC’s Green Spaces Looking
Not So Green
REGULATIONS
- In DC, it’s a closed-arm approach
to business that prevails
Our objectives:
- To promote economic freedom within DC: High taxes and regulations price DC out of competition with surrounding areas. Individuals and businesses in DC know better how to spend their money than does the DC government.
- To expose DC Government inefficiencies: Some DC Government services are monopolies, controlled solely by the government. Monopolies, especially government monopolies, are particularly inefficient.
- To defend the invaluable role that business plays in DC’s economy: Business alone creates wealth, and the redistribution of this wealth through government services needs to be limited.
- To provide more efficient public policy solutions for DC: The DC government should limit itself to doing a few things well.
- To provide a broader context for making public policy decisions: The DC area is a part of a larger global market. It must craft public policies that take this reality into account.
LEADERSHIP
Christian Robey, President
Brett McMahon, Chairman
Eli Lehrer, Trustee
Virginia Walden Ford, Trustee
BOARD OF SCHOLARS
Deroy Murdock
Casey Lartigue
Sabrina Schaffer
Jonathan Williams
Paul Driessen
Dan Lips
Cheryl K. Chumley