CLASP

This brief details the threat that the new administration poses to the federal Department of Education and its impact on post-secondary institutions.

The Biden-Harris Administration's student debt relief efforts aim to alleviate the burden on borrowers, particularly those from marginalized communities.

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.