Steven Brown, a senior research associate and associate director of the Racial Equity Analytics Lab, and Signe-Mary McKernan, vice president for labor, human services, and population, provided written testimony before the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee on Business and Economic Development. The hearing included a discussion of the Child Wealth Building Act of 2021 (B24-236) and tax policy proposals to build wealth equity in the District’s COVID-19 economic recovery plans. In separate oral testimony, Brown demonstrated how baby bonds can be a bold wealth-based solution to addressing the large racial wealth gap.