Decriminalizing Poverty
Session 2025: Key Budget Policy Choices
The Virginia state budget affects everything and everyone in our lives — from how well we fund our public schools,...
Governor’s Budget Choices Attempt To Give Many Misguided and Failed Policies A Second Life
Today, Ashley C. Kenneth, President and CEO of The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis (TCI), released the following statement on...
Money Committee Budgets Take Critical Steps to Boost Virginia Families
Today, Ashley Kenneth, President and CEO of The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis (TCI), released the following statement on the...
Session 2024: Key Budget Policy Choices
Comparing the introduced, legislature-passed, and governor’s amendments for the 2024-2026 budget The governor has released his proposed changes to the...
Statement: Governor Perpetuates System of Inequality, Keeps People Ensnared in Legal System through Veto of HB857/SB514
Emily King, Senior Policy Analyst at The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis (TCI), released the following statement regarding the governor...
Two Commonwealth’s Attorneys Announce Policy to Reduce Court Debt Collection Fees
Today, two Commonwealth’s Attorneys — the Hon. Buta Biberaj (Loudoun) and the Hon. Ramin Fatehi (Norfolk) — are announcing a...
Juneteenth: Celebrating and working for liberation for our youth
This is a joint op-ed with RISE for Youth, co-authored by Monica Hutchison; it originally appeared in Virginia...
Eliminating Youth Fines and Fees Relieves Black Youth and their Families from Undue Burden
Virginia can be a place where every young person has the support and resources to reach their full potential and...
Extended Injustice: Court Fines and Fees for Young People are Counterproductive, Particularly Harm Black Young People, Families, and Communities
Virginia can be a place where every young person has the support and resources to reach their full potential and...