CLASP actively tracks and analyzes developments in the areas of our focus—with the goal of promoting a federal budget that does not disproportionately disadvantage programs for vulnerable families or reduce services and supports that are effective in moving families toward self-sufficiency.

Child Support
	Families Will Lose Billions
Under Committee's Proposal
	Child Support Enforcement:
A Sound Investment
Child Care and Early Ed
	Families Would Lose Child Care
	Assistance Under House Bill
	President's Budget Freezes
	Child Care Funding
Child Welfare
	House Foster Care Cuts Would
	Hurt Children in Relatives' Care
	Financing Child Welfare
	(Audio Conference transcript)
Welfare Policy
	TANF Fiscal Structure

Federal Budget and Tax Policy Resources

As Congress finalizes its fiscal year 2006 federal budget, the House and Senate are working to cut $35 billion or more in order to reduce the federal deficit and offset the costs of the war and hurricane recovery efforts. These reductions have significant implications for the economic security and stability of low-income families, children, and youth.
 

For background information, comprehensive analyses of budget proposals and

their impact on public programs, and ideas for getting involved, we recommend

the following resources. (CLASP is a member of the Coalition on Human Needs, and often partners with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Moving Ideas' parent publication, The American Prospect.)

The Federal Budget

• Coalition on Human Needs: Budget and Appropriations Resources
   

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: the 2006 Federal Budget

• Moving Ideas: Progressives’ Guide to the Federal Budget Battle

Tax Policy

• Coalition on Human Needs: Tax Policy Resources

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Federal Tax Policies

Action Alerts and Information

• Coalition on Human Needs: Action Alerts

• The Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities (ECAP)

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