CLASP

This report explains how students with low incomes can access public benefits and how states can better support them.

This brief on debt-free college looks at federal and state policies through an anti-poverty, racial-equity lens.

Since 2011-2012, unmet financial need for college students has increased 23 percent. Nearly three in four students now experience it.

This brief encourages states to develop a state-defined process to utilize Ability to Benefit (ATB).

This paper lays out an action framework that the higher education leaders, nonprofit advocates, state policymakers, and postsecondary students we gathered during an April 2018 roundtable agree are needed to support the educational success of low-income working students, particularly students of color. It also examines…

This brief describes how current proposals to restrict health care access threaten student coverage.

For low-income students, it’s critical to expand current political thinking to include raising the threshold for the automatic zero Expected Family Contribution (EFC).

This brief explains why high-quality, short-term education and training programs that are part of a career pathway should be eligible for Pell grants.

When state budgets are tight, Pell Grants can indirectly give states more financial flexibility to support the success of innovative state and local ideas. Conversely, cuts to Pell, or the failure to maintain current provisions such as tying the value of it to inflation, can…

This policy brief discusses how the proposed PROSPER Act would move backward on the fronts of affordability, equity, and connections to work and careers.