One of the city’s most beloved and long-standing traditions is turning 50 with programming on two themes: “Circus Arts” and “On The Move: Migration Across Generations.”

People are coming to D.C. from all over, but can they afford to stay?

A new report from the Urban Institute says that while the D.C. area weathered the late-2000s recession “relatively well,” the region still endures a stubbornly high unemployment rate and a poverty rate of about 8 percent.