July 4th will mark one year since Congress passed and Donald Trump signed into law the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025, which included the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in the programs’ histories and prioritized funding to separate immigrant families and give tax breaks…
U.S. intervention in foreign countries can have long-lasting and irrevocable consequences, both here and abroad. Since the Trump Administration launched military strikes in Iran on February 28, the human and economic toll has been high.
“We’re always going to push for working on the root causes of stress, anxiety, and trauma, but it also means you’ve got to work on improving basic needs in communities,” explained Weerasinghe, including access to food, clean water, affordable housing, health care, and more. It…
This statement can be attributed to Wendy Chun-Hoon, president and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Washington, D.C., April 6, 2026–The Trump Administration’s budget proposal predictably cuts support for children, families, and workers, at a time when families are already…
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we should reflect on how far women’s rights have come over the years, along with the recent significant backsliding.
The State of the Union is supposed to be a moment for the nation to take stock and see who we are as a society. But Trump’s address was a work of fiction. The real state of our union is fragile, strained, and deeply unequal,…
By Sam Schroeder Isha Weerasinghe, Director of Public Benefits Justice at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), said while the national crisis impacts every American, states that implemented Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act over the past decade – including Pennsylvania –…