- Mar 09, 10 | The Huffington Post Senate Drops Funding for Summer Jobs Programs and Enhanced Subsidies for Families with Children Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a senior policy analyst at CLASP, said advocates will pressure Democrats to reintroduce the TANF funding before the enhanced program expires in September. She said the fate of state summer jobs programs is less certain.
- Feb 25, 10 | USA Today Work Share Program That Cuts Jobs v. Hours Could Grow "The (work share) program has played an important role during this recession, and it should be available to workers in more states," says Neil Ridley, senior policy analyst at CLASP.
- Feb 17, 10 | Slate Will Obama Help You Get Decent Child Care There's even more money-$1.6 billion-for increasing child care subsidies for low-income parents. Besides Head Start, this program that helps parents on the lower end of the economic ladder get affordable care is pretty much the closest we've come to a systemic government approach to child care. Yet it's so underfunded that it assists only, at most, one in seven children who need help. That means that more than 16 million others qualify for assistance and don't get it, according to research by CLASP.
- Feb 16, 10 One Year Later: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Much of the recent public discourse on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has focused on whether it created a quantifiable number of jobs and to what degree it has and continues to stimulate the economy. These are important policy questions, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that "reinvestment" in the nation's social infrastructure is a significant piece of the Recovery Act and equally essential to short- and long-term recovery.
- Feb 05, 10 Slight Drop in Unemployment Promising But No Reason to Cheer Today's unemployment report showed some glimmers of light, but also how far we have to go before a true recovery. The nation's overall unemployment rate declined by .3 percent and there was a significant drop in involuntary part-time employment. Unfortunately, long-term unemployment continued to rise and low-skill workers and minority workers, continue to face very difficult challenges in the labor market. Projections are that these populations are likely to experience very high rates of unemployment for quite some time.
- Feb 01, 10 President's Budget Proposal Includes Critical Investments in Programs That Affect Low-Income People The president's budget recognizes that a key to shared, long-term economic prosperity is investing in programs that provide low-income people with the supports and tools they need to move out of poverty.
- Jan 27, 10 CLASP Statement Regarding State of the Union In this time of increasing economic insecurity, rising unemployment and increasing poverty, the American public demands bold solutions that will put people to work and provide them with a foundation for long-term economic security.
CLASP's policy experts present at a wide variety of events, conferences, seminars and forums throughout the country. Following are upcoming CLASP staff presentations:
- Mar 23, 10 Charting Progress for Babies: A Framework for Addressing the Needs of Infants and Toddlers in Child Care
- Mar 25, 10 Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield Keynote Speaker at New Jersey Association for Lifelong Learning Conference
- Apr 09, 10 ECE Policy at the Federal Level--What's in it for Me?
- Apr 13, 10 Poverty in the United States