Fact Sheets

• Nov 19, 2009  |  Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Josh Bone TANF Emergency Fund: State Applications Approved as of November 10 HHS reports that as of November 10, 2009, 22 states have been awarded a total of $840 million from the TANF Emergency Fund. This fact sheet shows the share of its maximum allocation that each state has received. Read Online   |   Download PDF
• Nov 18, 2009  |  Evelyn Ganzglass Job Creation: Creating Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income Populations The current economic and job crisis requires that additional steps be taken to create employment and training opportunities for those hardest hit by the recession. Experts and policymakers have proposed numerous strategies to create and retain jobs such as tax credits, public service employment and the expansion of work-sharing/short-time compensation options under the Unemployment Insurance program. This fact sheet offers a number of ideas for how the public Workforce Investment and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families systems could be mobilized to create new work opportunities for low-income, unemployed workers. Read Online   |   Download PDF
• Oct 28, 2009  |  Josh Bone and Elizabeth Lower-Basch Analysis of Fiscal Year 2008 TANF and MOE Spending by States The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published data concerning use of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and state maintenance of effort (MOE) funds in FY 2008. This set of state-by-state charts shows how each state reported using its TANF and MOE funds in FY 2008. Read Online   |   Download Spreadsheet
• Oct 23, 2009  |  Child Care and Early Education U.S. Head Start by the Numbers 2008 This profile provides data across all Head Start programs (Early Head Start, Head Start preschool, American Indian/Alaskan Native Head Start, and Migrant Head Start) for all grantees. Profiles on individual states are available through "In the States." Download PDF
• Sep 30, 2009 Healthy Families Act: Advocates' Answers to Businesses' Frequently Asked Questions This document provides a distilled version of the Healthy Families Act in a Question and Answer form and is aimed at dispelling any myths about the legislation. Download PDF
• Sep 30, 2009 Paid Sick Days: A Comparison of Three Cities' Laws and Pending Federal Legislation A comparison table of the bills in San Francisco, Washington DC, Milwaukee, and the federal Healthy Families Act. Download PDF
• Sep 30, 2009 Paid Sick Days: Reaching Out to Businesses to Say YES to a Level Playing Field Paid Sick Days: Reaching Out to Businesses to Say YES to a Level Playing Field is a resource guide to help state and local advocates recruit business leaders, owners, and trade groups to help gain support for paid sick day's legislation. Download PDF
• Sep 16, 2009  |  Jodie Levin-Epstein Poverty and Opportunity: State Government Task Forces This publication provides information about how states are addressing poverty through task forces. It includes links to state-specific information such as authorizing legislation and poverty task force reports. Download PDF
• Jul 10, 2009 U.S. Head Start by the Numbers 2007 This fact sheet presents Head Start PIR data for all Head Start programs in the nation -- including preschool programs, Early Head Start, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, and American Indian/Alaskan Native Head Start. Download PDF
• Jun 19, 2009  |  Linda Harris and Sara Hastings Youth Opportunity Grant Evaluation Fact Sheet At the end of 2008, the Department of Labor released the findings of an independent evaluation conducted by DIR, Inc. showing positive results from the YO initiative and highlighting effective practices for serving youth. During the grant period, these 36 communities enrolled 92,000 mostly minority youth -- 48 percent of them out of school. The evaluation documented that for this population, grantees were able to increase educational attainment, Pell Grant receipt, labor market participation, and employment rates and earnings. The evaluation also showed that when adequate resources are targeted at building community capacity to serve youth, labor force participation and education outcomes can improve. Download PDF
• May 21, 2009  |  Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Provisions Which Can Support Programming to Improve Outcomes for Black Men & Boys Prior to the economic downturn, Black males already faced disproportionately negative outcomes in so many areas, including education, health, justice, and employment. The recession has only exacerbated the problems faced by this population. There is a case to be made for targeting American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) resources to this population and for using these one-time resources to begin to put in place programs and efforts which will have lasting effects for Black males. This document highlights the funding streams in the ARRA which may provide such opportunities. Download PDF
• Apr 06, 2009  |  Matt Lewis and Elizabeth Lower-Basch Analysis of Fiscal Year 2007 TANF and MOE Spending by States The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published data concerning use of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and state maintenance of effort (MOE) funds in FY 2007. This set of state-by-state charts shows how each state reported using its TANF and MOE funds in FY 2007. Read Online   |   Download Spreadsheet
• Mar 10, 2009 State Infant/Toddler ARRA Policies Series Part of CLASP's "Reinvesting in Child Care" series, this set of eight fact sheets provides policy recommendations and state examples for using economic recovery funds to improve the quality of infant/toddler care. Read Online
• Feb 13, 2009  |  Vicki Turetsky How Much Restored Child Support Funding Will Each State Receive Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? 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. Download PDF
• Feb 13, 2009  |  Hannah Matthews Impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 on Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Funding State Allocations for $2 Billion in CCDBG Funding. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes $2 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). CLASP has estimated the state allocations for the child care funding as well as the share of funds states will receive for quality initiatives. Download PDF
• Jan 08, 2009  |  Vicki Turetsky Child Support Funding Stimulates an Economic Recovery 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. Download PDF
• Nov 21, 2008  |  Hannah Matthews U.S. Child Care Assistance Profile 2007 This fact sheet presents state reported information on child care spending through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds used for child care, and information on children and families participating in CCDBG. Download PDF
• Nov 06, 2008 Side-by-Side: Comparison of Provisions in the House Fostering Connections to Success Act, the Senate Finance Committee Chairmans Mark and the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act Download PDF
• Nov 05, 2008  |  Hannah Matthews U.S. Child Care Assistance State Profile 2006 This fact sheet presents state reported information on child care spending through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds used for child care, and information on children and families participating in CCDBG. Download PDF
• Oct 03, 2008  |  Rutledge Q. Hutson Protecting Children and Strengthening Families Too many children experience abuse and neglect with negative lifelong consequences. Too few children get the services and supports they need to heal. Yet, proven and promising practices can reduce maltreatment and ameliorate harm. Taking these practices to scale will require federal investment and leadership in five strategic areas. We must: (1) increase prevention and early intervention services that help keep children and families out of crisis; (2) increase specialized treatment services for those children and families that do experience crisis; (3) increase services to support families after a crisis has stabilized (including birth families, as well as kinship and adoptive families created when parents are unable to care for their children); (4) enhance the quality of the workforce providing services to children and families; and (5) improve accountability both for dollars spent and outcomes achieved. Together these efforts will improve the lives of millions of children across the nation. Download PDF