By Sirisha Dinavahi – LA Post (EXCERPT) Mental health care is critical for families facing uncertainty. Suma Setty, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Law and Social Policy, noted that even the threat of separation could harm children: “Even just the threat [of…
By Rainesford Stauffer (EXCERPT) She isn’t alone. The United States does not require employers to offer paid family and medical leave and paid sick time. Workers who need time off to have a baby, care for a sick relative, or recover from injury or illness depend on the generosity of…
By: Madyson Fitzgerald (EXCERPT) But there’s still a gap in regulations for rideshare companies because of their evolving technologies, said Lorena Roque, the interim director of education, labor and worker justice at The Center for Law and Social Policy, a left-leaning anti-poverty advocacy organization. “Working on…
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Sol Amaya, CNN (EXCERPT) “The childcare sector broadly has long been facing a crisis and a shortage of workers. And immigrant workers are critical to keeping that system running. Both the formal sector and the informal sector,” Wendy Cervantes, director of Immigration and…
By New York Times (EXCERPT) “So they’re going to need to look to other programs, or just cut the funding for undocumented immigrants, which is going to have an impact on everyone in that family, including citizen family members,” said Wendy Cervantes, the director of immigration…
By Gene Nichol (EXCERPT) Three hundred billion dollars will be cut from the food stamp program (SNAP) – the largest reduction in American history. The Center for Law and Social Policy found that 11 million impoverished folks, including many millions of kids, will lose food assistance.…
By Stephanie Schmit (op-ed) (EXCERPT) All of us want our kids to get a fair start in life. And for millions of American families, that start has come from the federal Head Start program. But unfortunately, President Donald Trump has frozen Head Start funds, laid…
Wendy Cervantes was a guest on Breaking Through, a podcast hosted by founder of MomsRising Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner. The episode, “Moms Equal Pay Day, Families Over Billionaires, How Medicaid Lifts Rural Moms & Families,” discusses how the Trump administration is using tax dollars for human rights…
By Suzanne Gamboa and Carmen Sesin (Excerpt) “Generally, parents are more willing to allow older U.S. citizen children, more so than younger children, to remain in the U.S., said Wendy Cervantes, director of immigration and immigrant families at the Center for Law and Social Policy, an anti-poverty…
By Marissa Martinez (Excerpt) Some estimates show this change could impact 4.5 million children alone. Coupled with proposals from other committees that restrict access to Medicaid or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), immigrant and mixed-status families face drastically rising costs, according to Ashley Burnside,…