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  2. Empowerment zone - Wikipedia

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    The empowerment zone employment credit provides businesses with an incentive to hire individuals who both live and work in an empowerment zone. (An exception applies to the Washington, DC empowerment zone. Individuals who work in the Washington, DC empowerment zone may live anywhere in the District of Columbia.) You can claim the credit if you ...

  3. Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

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    The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corp., also referred to as UMEZ, is a non-profit organization that seeks to revitalize economically deprived communities by using public funds and tax incentives as catalysts for private investment. UMEZ’s mission is to sustain the economic revitalization of all communities of Upper Manhattan ...

  4. Economy of the Washington metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The economy of the Washington metropolitan area includes the economy of Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, including parts of Maryland, all of Northern Virginia, and Jefferson County, West Virginia. In 2022, the DC metro area had the country's fifth-highest gross metropolitan product, at $541 billion. [1]

  5. 'I hear a whisper calling us to rise:' Teen Empowerment opens ...

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    Google images from 387 Genesee St. in Rochester provide a glimpse of change in the neighborhood. Teen Empowerment plans to build a $4.3 million youth center on the site where abandoned, burnt out ...

  6. 2020 District of Columbia elections - Wikipedia

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    On November 3, 2020, the District of Columbia held elections for several local and federal government offices. Its primary elections were held on June 2, 2020. [ 2] In addition to the U.S. presidential race voters elected one of its two shadow senators, its nonvoting member of the House of Representatives and 6 of 13 seats on the council.

  7. Elections in the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Federal. Since the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, [1] the District of Columbia has participated in 15 presidential elections. The amendment states that it cannot have more electoral votes than the state with the smallest number of electors. [2] Since then, it has been allocated three electoral votes in every ...

  8. Washington metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. The metropolitan area includes all of ...

  9. Council of the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The Council of the District of Columbia (or simply D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the district is not part of any U.S. state and is overseen directly by the federal government. Since 1975, the United States Congress has devolved to the ...