By Karen Schulman, Director of State Child Care Policy, NWLC, at Tiffany Ferrette, Senior Policy Analyst, Child Care and Early Education CLASP, in collaboration with NWLC, responded to a public comment about the update to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan Preprint for…
By Alycia Hardy CLASP submits Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to the Office of Head Start to urge better wages and benefits for Head Start teachers, comprehensive mental health care, and quality improvements across the system. >>Read the full comments here
Child care has long been unaffordable and inaccessible for many families. The Child Care Development Fund, the primary federal funding source to help families with low incomes access child care, is a crucial support for many families. However, Congress has never funded child care at…
This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of the impact that federal COVID child care relief funds have already had across four states: Louisiana, Michigan, New York, and Virginia.
This report addresses and assesses many policies—particularly presumptive eligibility—that may be useful to other states' efforts to improve their child care subsidy programs.
CLASP President and Executive Director Indivar Dutta-Gupta testified to the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Taxation and Oversight about the Child Tax Credit, its history and track record, and what Congress should do now.
We proudly partnered with the The Children’s Partnership and the California Protecting Immigrant Families (CA-PIF) campaign to release a new fact sheet spotlighting the health of children in immigrant families in California. Children in immigrant families in California are a racially and ethnically diverse population…
By Alyssa Fortner Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Household Pulse Survey.” Specifically, we recommended the inclusion of more questions in the survey to ensure a deeper understanding of the impact that the…