http://www.clasp.org/experts/highlights.xml?id=0008 Resources & Publications from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 05:27:29 -0500 info@clasp.org webmaster@clasp.org 40 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1241&list=publications Getting Down to Business is a CLASP monthly update on the latest news about business and paid leave. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1241&list=publications Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/CLASP-Workforce-Ed-Mark-Up-April-16-to-Committee-April-15.pdf As the Committee on Education and the Workforce considers The Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406) sponsored by Representative Martha Roby (R-AL), CLASP urges the Committee not to move measure forward. A mission of the Committee is to protect the workforce; the bill would add a new wage rule that raises the specter of greater vulnerability for the non-exempt workforce. Since enforcement of basic wage rules is woefully under resourced, we need to fix that first. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/CLASP-Workforce-Ed-Mark-Up-April-16-to-Committee-April-15.pdf Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/4.9.13-Earned-Paid-Sick-Time-Business-Questionnaire_MA.pdf Surveys of employers about their sick days' practices and about their views regarding a new law can be helpful in a city or state campaign. We were asked by Massachusetts' advocates to come up with this survey tool. We hope advocates will adapt it to suit their particular needs. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/4.9.13-Earned-Paid-Sick-Time-Business-Questionnaire_MA.pdf Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1228&list=publications Getting Down to Business is a CLASP monthly update on the latest news about business and paid leave. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1228&list=publications Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/SF-Implementation-Brief-FINAL.pdf Implementing a new law is always a complex process. But what happens when you are the first jurisdiction in the country to pass such a law? This was the unique challenge facing San Francisco when it passed the nation's first earned sick days law in 2006. The City and County government took on the challenge admirably, employing a variety of creative strategies to conduct outreach to the public, write meaningful rules, and ensure the law would be properly enforced. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/SF-Implementation-Brief-FINAL.pdf Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/Business-Voices-on-Ease-of-Implementation-of-Sick-Days-DC-and-SF.pdf Around the nation, city councils and state legislatures are increasingly considering legislation to establish a sick days' law. Employers, particularly those who are not familiar with sick days' policy, are leery of administering it. For some, this worry leads them to oppose passage of legislation. However, in locations where laws are already implemented, many businesses have stepped forward to acknowledge that administering sick days' policy is actually pretty simple. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/Business-Voices-on-Ease-of-Implementation-of-Sick-Days-DC-and-SF.pdf Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1224&list=publications This national audio conference discusses the intersections between worker safety issues and earned sick days policies. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1224&list=publications Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1234&list=publications Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity hosted a national audio conference, in partnership with the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, the Northwest Area Foundation and the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to explore programs that help families build financial assets. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1234&list=publications Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1205&list=publications The Department of Labor (DOL) recently released the results of two new surveys on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). These are the first surveys conducted by the DOL on the FMLA in over a decade. Released just in time for the 20th anniversary of the passage of the FMLA, the results give us significant insight into both employer and employee experiences with this pivotal legislation. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1205&list=publications Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1201&list=publications By 2014 millions of Americans will be able to access affordable health care for the first time. ObamaCare is historic legislation that will help workers who could not get affordable care through their employers or were unable to bear the costs of self-insurance. While there is a lot to celebrate, advocates, low wage workers and others are concerned that the law's focus on coverage for full-time employees might lead some employers to cut workers' hours. Press reports have fueled this worry. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1201&list=publications Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1181&list=publications This audio conference explores how STEP UP is promoting opportunity and ways businesses can make a real difference in local anti-poverty efforts. The Employers in Savannah are increasingly at the forefront of new steps to provide opportunity and remove barriers to success. It's the third of a three-part "Cities Promote Opportunity" audio conference series. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1181&list=publications Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1172&list=publications This audio conference highlighted how Providence, R.I. is carrying forward the work of its Poverty, Work and Opportunity Task Force and its recommendations for how the city could build opportunity for its residents. The event was sponsored by Spotlight on Poverty, which CLASP manages, and National League of Cities, Institute for Youth, Education & Families. It's the second in the three-part "Cities Promote Opportunity" audio conference series. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1172&list=publications Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1164&list=publications Battered by the recession like so many other cities, both Hartford, Conn. and Richmond, Va. recently established task forces to develop recommendations aimed at providing greater opportunity to area residents. This audio conference explored questions like: What are the priority recommendations in each city? What is the expectation around implementation? How will progress be assessed? And what are the key components of making job creation ideas work and stick over long the haul? http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1164&list=publications Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=1033&list=publications This audio conference, a state advocate describes how the number has mattered, a state legislator tells why he wants a poverty impact projection attached to bills, and researchers will discuss how states can tailor analysis to their own policies and programs designed to decrease poverty. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=1033&list=publications Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/Poverty-Impact-Projections.pdf A Poverty Impact Projection (PIP) is an emerging tool that asks and answers the question at the forefront of the policy process such as, "If we pursue this policy, how much should it increase or decrease poverty?" This new report examines states where PIPs have been considered and offers thoughts about structuring PIPs. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/Poverty-Impact-Projections.pdf Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/Poverty-and-Opportunity-What-Difference-Can-a-Task-Force-Make.pdf About 20 states, including Washington D.C., have established a state government poverty and opportunity task force. Eleven of these states have set poverty reduction targets, such as cutting poverty in half in a decade. This report profiles four of these task forces in Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois and Colorado, and provides an overview of their impacts. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/Poverty-and-Opportunity-What-Difference-Can-a-Task-Force-Make.pdf Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=0952&list=publications In this audio conference cosponsored by Spotlight on Poverty and the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) offered an insider's perspective on the latest budget developments as Congress debates funding for FY 2012. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=0952&list=publications Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=0939&list=publications This audio conference featured two experts on the United Kingdom's successful child poverty reduction efforts, even during the recession. With child poverty on the rise since 2000 in the U.S., these experts provided U.S. poverty advocates with lessons learned after the U.K. government pledged in 1999 to cut child poverty in half by 2010. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=0939&list=publications Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600 /postsecondary/publication?id=0917&list=publications In a new Spotlight on Poverty webcast, Vickie Choitz, senior policy analyst with CLASP's workforce development team and co-author of Funding Career Pathways and Career Pathway Bridges: A Federal Policy Toolkit for States, discusses approaches to help low-skilled, low-income adults earn postsecondary credentials that lead to good jobs with family-sustaining wages. http://www.clasp.org/postsecondary/publication?id=0917&list=publications Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600 /resources_and_publications/publication?id=0849&list=publications This Spotlight on Poverty national audio conference featured Illinois state legislators and experts discussing newly released recommendations from the state's poverty commission. http://www.clasp.org/resources_and_publications/publication?id=0849&list=publications