Skip to main content
  • Contact Us
  • Press Room
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

CLASP

The Center for Law and Social Policy

  • About
    • Support CLASP
    • Board of Trustees
    • Careers
    • Financials
    • Advancing Racial Equity
    • Staff
  • Issues
    • Children, Youth & Families
      • Child Care and Early Education
        • Child Care Subsidies
      • Immigrant Children and Families
      • Two-Generation Policies
      • Youth and Young Adults
        • Young Adult Behavioral Health
        • Opportunity Youth
        • Youth Employment
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • State Technical Assistance
    • Health and Mental Health
      • Maternal Mental Health
      • Medicaid
      • Young Adult Behavioral Health
    • Income and Work Supports
      • Medicaid
      • Cross-Program Benefit Access
      • SNAP
      • TANF
      • Immigrant Access to Benefits
      • Refundable Tax Credits
    • Racial Equity
      • Immigrant Access to Benefits
      • Immigrant Children and Families
      • Criminal Justice
      • Data and Disparities
      • Young Men and Women of Color
    • Education, Labor & Worker Justice
      • Workforce Development
        • Youth Employment
        • WIOA Game Plan for Low-Income People
        • Work-Based Learning and Subsidized Employment
      • Adult and Postsecondary Education
        • Career Pathways
        • State Aid and Other Financial Supports
        • Federal Postsecondary Policy
      • Job Quality and Work/Life
        • Fair Job Schedules
        • Labor Standards Enforcement Series
        • Paid Family and Medical Leave
        • Paid Sick Days
  • Resources
    • Covid 19
    • CLASP at 50
  • Experts
  • Blog
  • Donate

October 7, 2022 | Blog Post | Cameron Johnson

More Federal Action is Needed to Promote Equity and Growth in the Green Workforce

The 2022 U.S. Energy and Employment Report revealed an ongoing challenge for the energy sector: it continues to have difficulty hiring workers and lacks both gender and racial diversity.  

June 14, 2022 | News Clip

Strengthening, applauding and defending Black dads

“According to the Center for Law and Social Policy, today, mass incarceration policies, barriers in the child welfare system, and economic inequality resulting in higher levels of unemployment are a few of the main structural barriers that disproportionately harm Black families."

March 21, 2022 | Press Release

Board of Trustees of the Center for Law and Social Policy Taps Indivar Dutta-Gupta as Executive Director

The Board of Trustees of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) announces that it has chosen Indivar “Indi” Dutta-Gupta as its next executive director.

February 28, 2022 | Blog Post | Cameron Johnson

Valuing and Championing African American Workers Is Long Overdue

African American workers and their labor built the United States of America. 

February 22, 2022 | Press Release | Olivia Golden

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Receives Historic Donation

Release announcing an historic donation from philanthropist, MacKenzie Scott.

November 17, 2021 | Press Release

Expanded Child Tax Credit Has Improved Overall Financial Stability

Release highlighting new national poll data on the Child Tax Credit.

March 31, 2021 | article | Cameron Johnson

COVID-19 Death Rate in Prisons and the General Population

This data visualization presents the death rate from COVID-19 in every state for those who are incarcerated compared to that of the general population, per 100,000.

March 26, 2021 | Blog Post | Diana Orozco

What We Can Learn from a Universal Basic Income for the Expanded Child Tax Credit

A basic income pilot in Stockton, California provided $500 monthly payments to 125 residents with no strings attached. From improved family wellbeing and financial stability to an increase in full-time employment, these positive impacts hold hope for the refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC). 

March 24, 2021 | Blog Post | Asha Banerjee

We Must Move Beyond the Status Quo and Close the Gender Pay Gap

This year's Equal Pay Day denotes when women finally make as much as white men made in all of 2020—the gap is even worse when broken down by race and ethnicity.

March 18, 2021 | News Clip | Parker Gilkesson

Navigating housing discrimination when purchasing a home

Parker Gilkesson was quoted on how the racial wealth gap impacts new black homeowners.

Content Type:

Publications

Articles:

Issue:

Author:

  • ABOUT CLASP
    • Advancing Racial Equity
    • Board of Trustees
    • State Technical Assistance
    • Careers
    • Staff
    • Financials
  • ISSUES
    • Children, Youth & Families
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • Health and Mental Health
    • Income and Work Supports
    • Jobs, Training & Education
    • Racial Equity
  • EXPERTS
    • Children, Youth & Families
    • Health and Mental Health
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • Income and Work Supports
    • Jobs, Training & Education
    • Racial Equity
    • Experts A-Z Index
  • PRESS ROOM
    • Events
    • News Clips
    • Press Releases
  • SUPPORT CLASP
    • Make a Donation
    • Leadership Council

CLASP | 1310 L St. NW, Suite 900 | Washington, D.C. 20005 | (202) 906-8000

Copyright © 2023 by the Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. All Rights Reserved

  • Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy