http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips Latest news clips about the CLASP en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:46:22 -0500 info@clasp.org webmaster@clasp.org 40 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0320 Students fail to finish college for a variety of reasons, but financial pressures appear to be the single largest factor, says Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Law and Social Policy. She pointed to a 2009 survey in which 71 percent of young adults who left college cited a need to "go to work and make money" as a reason for doing so. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0320 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0319 For many dropouts, especially those who are too old to return to the public K-12 system, the GED assessment has long been the main route to the high school credential that eluded them. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0319 Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0318 n 1996, the year that Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed welfare reform, fulfilling his campaign pledge to "end welfare as we know it," there were 14.5 million poor children in the United States; 8.5 million children were in families that received cash assistance from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), or welfare. Even then, nearly half of poor children were not in families that received welfare. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0318 Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0317 Greg Kaufmann discusses Sallie Mae and the cost of education. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0317 Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0316 Identity fraud in public assistance is "certainly something that you would want to prevent [and] to the extent that you can make online applications more secure, it's a good thing," said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a policy coordinator and senior analyst with the Center for Law and Social Policy. "You just need to make sure that it doesn't create burdens for people." http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0316 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0315 "Nationally, the picture for adult literacy funding has always been dire, but recently it's been getting more so," added Marcie Foster, a policy analyst with CLASP in Washington, D.C., noting that while adult education's funding has remained flat in the past decade, when adjusted for inflation that means a 25 percent cut in purchasing power for providers. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0315 Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0314 Even as the economy recovers, too many unemployed workers and individuals with low education and skill levels face a difficult job market. Nearly two out of five unemployed workers have been jobless for six months or more; 6.7 million youth are both out of work and out of school. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0314 Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0313 Because gun violence disproportionately affects African-American men and boys, particularly those who live in high-poverty communities, efforts to end it must also address issues of race, place, and poverty, a report from CLASP finds. According to Taking Aim at Gun Violence (11 pages, PDF), 53,850 African-American males were killed by firearms between 2000 and 2010, while rates of gun violence among young African-American men were highest where dropout, unemployment, and poverty rates are also high. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0313 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0310 Such tests can be harmful due to the volume of paperwork and caseworkers' time they can tie up, but also because they discourage savings, said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, an expert on policies that impact low-income people at CLASP. "It sends the wrong signal," she said. "It encourages people to spend down rather than put money in the bank and save it against future needs." http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0310 Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0311 Center for Law and Social Policy of the District appointed Olivia Golden executive director. http://www.clasp.org/news_room/clips?id=0311