http://www.clasp.org/issues/rss/publications.xml?type=child_support_and_fathers Resources and Publications from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 17:42:50 -0500 info@clasp.org webmaster@clasp.org 40 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 /postsecondary/publication?id=0923&list=publications This document looks at select provisions in the Recovery Act that affected low-income people and their families. In areas where there is available data, it notes the impact of the program on the number of people who benefited from ARRA provisions. While the effect of the Recovery Act will be debated and analyzed by policy experts and researchers for years to come, some of the early evidence makes it clear that the Recovery Act benefited the nation by easing some immediate effects of the recession and preventing deeper hardship. http://www.clasp.org/postsecondary/publication?id=0923&list=publications Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600 /postsecondary/publication?id=0716&list=publications Our nation faces many domestic challenges, including improving access to affordable health care, improving access to education as well as education outcomes, and providing debt and foreclosure relief. CLASP's 2010 federal policy recommendations are equally essential to achieving healthy and thriving families and improving the nation's prosperity. http://www.clasp.org/postsecondary/publication?id=0716&list=publications Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/federalpolicyrecommendations.pdf The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has developed an extensive federal policy agenda for President Obama and the 111th Congress directed at improving the lives of low income people. That agenda is outlined in this document. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/federalpolicyrecommendations.pdf Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/PassThroughFinal061209.pdf This chart lists all 50 states and the District of Columbias child support pass-through and income disregard policies as of June 2009. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/PassThroughFinal061209.pdf Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0454.pdf The ARRA includes a 2-year suspension of a provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2006 that reduced federal child support funding to the child support enforcement program. The ARRA temporarily restores funding to help families continue to receive child support payments and prevent widespread cutbacks in child support services. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0454.pdf Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0450.pdf Reversing the child support cuts would provide stimulus to the federal government, states, and to low-income families. This fact sheet describes why reversing the child support cuts is a cost-effective means to help low income families meet basic household expenses and will aid state and county budgets. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0450.pdf Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0441.pdf The United States is entering into a recession which many will be longer and more severe than any we have faced in recent decades. As Congress and the new President consider what actions to take, CLASP calls for a package that goes beyond stimulus aimed at temporarily boosting consumer demand. This paper outlines actions that Congress should take immediately to strengthen safety net programs that provide critical assistance to vulnerable workers and families and to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to share in the benefits of recovery. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0441.pdf Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0436.pdf CLASP has developed an extensive federal policy agenda for the next President and Congress directed at improving the lives of low income people. The detailed agenda makes recommendations for changes in policy at all levels of the federal government: the White House, Federal departments and agencies, the budget and appropriations' process, and the law-making process in Congress. This publication provides an overview of our agenda organized into eleven key recommendations. Taken as a whole, the eleven recommendations call for increasing investments in effective programs and funding streams that concretely help children, youth, and families thrive; strengthening and modernizing the nation's safety net; and building supportive pathways for low-income youths and adults to good jobs that sustain families and communities. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0436.pdf Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0416.pdf American workers and families are being squeezed between a declining labor market and increasing costs for food, fuel, and other basic needs. This paper describes the economy's impact on vulnerable adults and youth, and lays out recommendations for action that can make a real difference in the lives of low-income workers and their families. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0416.pdf Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0414.pdf This brief on legislation outlines the provisions of the proposed Responsible Fatherhood and Health Families Act of 2007. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0414.pdf Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0411.pdf Congress should not authorize the use of a child support data base, called the National Directory of New Hires, to establish mandatory electronic employment verification system as is proposed in the "New Employee Verification Act of 2008" (HR 5515). This use of the National Directory of New Hires will seriously undermine the goals and effectiveness of the child support system. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0411.pdf Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0410.pdf Written statement delivered before the Subcommittee on Social Security Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0410.pdf Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0403.pdf President Bush's budget proposal sends a simple and stark message: even in an economic downturn, those at the bottom of the income scale don't matter. It is now Congress' turn to prepare a budget plan. The Congressional budget resolution should inflict no harm to low-income workers, restore prior cuts, and invest in the future by supporting the workforce and ensuring safe and healthy children. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0403.pdf Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0394.pdf First published by the Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy in Summer 2007, this paper describes the types of criminal financial sanctions levied against people as they make their way through the criminal justice system and the child support policies that lead to unrealistic and counterproductive payment obligations. Cost-recovery policies enforced by criminal justice and child support agencies are ill-advised, undermining the criminal justice system's rehabilitation goals, the child support system's goals to support children, and society's interest in fully reintegrating people after release from prison. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0394.pdf Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0389.pdf The following letter was sent to Senators suggesting improvements to the economic stimulus package to help those hardest hit by an economic downturn. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0389.pdf Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0392.pdf The final fact sheet in this series illustrates why funding for child support enforcement should be restored. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0392.pdf Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0393.pdf Effective next year, new state options included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) will allow states to pay up to 100 percent of collected child support to current and former TANF families -- up to $2 billion more money for families every year. States and advocates alike support the new DRA distribution options. However, a cut in federal funding for child support enforcement also included in the DRA threatens state implementation of these new options. The third fact sheet in this series examines this issue. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0393.pdf Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0391.pdf Quick action is needed by Congress this year to reverse counter-stimulative federal cuts to state and child support programs included in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Allowing these cuts to take effect will result in lay-offs of child support enforcement workers, and even worse, will cost families with children at least a billion dollars a year. In contrast, preventing the loss of federal funds will provide needed state relief, while ensuring that families do not lose support in an economic downturn. This is the first of four fact sheets on the subject. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0391.pdf Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600 /admin/site/publications/files/0390.pdf The child support program helps families become stronger and more self-sufficient. The program has other bridges into the community as well -- bridges that are at risk of collapse without adequate support. The impacts of the child support funding cut will ripple throughout the community, as illustrated in the second of four fact sheets on the subject. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0390.pdf Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500 /admin/site/publications/files/0368.pdf These slides are from a July 13 congressional briefing on the Child Support Protection Act of 2007 (S. 803 and H.R. 1386). The briefing, which was cosponsored by CLASP, explained the devastating impact of the child support cut--approved by Congress last year and scheduled to take effect this October--on states, counties, and families. http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0368.pdf