CLASP

This framework intends to provide a unifying set of goals across actors and movements to improve immigrant mental health and well-being in the United States.

This brief and fact sheet series offer states ways to improve child care access within the confines of the current system.

Immigrants need access to public benefits like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP. Inclusive federal policies are crucial for this access, as anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric have eroded trust in government institutions among immigrant communities.

Accessible, affordable, high-quality child care and early education are vital for the economic well-being of families, communities, and the nation. However, families, especially those of color with low incomes, face significant challenges in accessing these services due to systemic racial and economic barriers.

This national report and series of state fact sheets analyze variations in eligibility and access to Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies in 2020.

In 2020-21, the U.S. achieved a monumental, yet temporary, milestone by enacting federal policy reforms that halved child poverty and uplifted low-income families, including immigrant families and families of color, amidst a global pandemic. These unprecedented reforms, though now largely ended, provide valuable lessons for future policy…

Join us to look back on the last year of work from CLASP and how we've worked to make policy better for people with low incomes.

In recent years, federal policymakers have taken steps to address the societal implications of AI and big data technologies, including the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, and the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance on…

By Tiffany Ferrette, Diane Girouard, Maria Estlund, Rachel Wilensky, Alisha Saxena, and Karen Schulman This resource summarizes the changes required or encouraged in the final CCDF rules and outlines encouragements to consider. We focus on requirements and encouragements and do not cover every aspect of…

By Kayla Tawa As mental health concerns and awareness around mental health challenges have increased, policymakers have prioritized mental health policy. Within these conversations, there is a broad recognition that far too often people experiencing mental health challenges encounter the criminal legal system rather than…