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July 1, 2025 | Press Release | Isha Weerasinghe

Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires

CLASP urges House lawmakers to reject this damaging bill and focus on policies that put workers, children, and families ahead of billionaires.

June 26, 2025 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

The Silent Link: The Food System’s Role in Black Maternal Mortality

Food insecurity or the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life is not just a symptom of poverty; it’s a silent force exacerbating the Black maternal health crisis.

June 5, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

Trump’s Budget Proposal Upends Children, Families, Immigrants, and Workers

This draconian budget would harm millions of people who are already forced to live on the margins.

June 4, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

CLASP and Union Ratify First Collective Bargaining Agreement

This agreement addressed the bargaining unit’s rights and protections, hiring processes, pay scale, leave policy, and workplace disputes, among other provisions.

May 22, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

House Reconciliation Bill Slashes Child and Family Supports to Fund Mass Deportation and Further Enrich the Wealthy

This bill guts health care, restricts access to food, sacrifices our higher education system, and punishes immigrant families, all to provide more tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations.

May 16, 2025 | Blog Post | Suzanne Wikle

Eligible People Will Lose Medicaid Coverage Through Reconciliation Process

The proposed changes include introducing work requirements, shifting costs to states and individuals, and increasing red tape--all of which would cut off eligible people from critical health coverage.

May 6, 2025 | News Clip | Suzanne Wikle

Report: Medicaid cuts could impact 1 in 4 CO child care workers

By Eric Galatas (Excerpt) Suzanne Wikle, associate director of state health policy and advocacy at the Center for Law and Social Policy, said no one could take $880 billion in federal funding out of the system and still provide health insurance to the same number…

April 30, 2025 | Blog Post | Suzanne Wikle

Medicaid Cuts Come Into Focus: Millions Stand to Lose Health Care

As Congress considers slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid, new details reveal plans to impose harmful “work requirements,” eliminate eligibility for legal immigrants, and restructure funding through risky per capita caps. These proposed changes will lead to mass disenrollment

April 28, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

New Tracker Documents DOGE’s Harms to Children, Families, People with Low Incomes

This tracker compiles and updates the harmful actions taken by the Trump Administration—particularly through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by unelected billionaire Elon Musk—to dismantle the federal government.

April 18, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

Proposed Cuts to HHS Services Would Devastate Families, Children, Workers, and the Economy

CLASP urges Congress to reject the budget, protect Head Start, and prioritize the country’s health and stability over the Trump Administration’s relentless efforts to dismantle vital programs under the guise of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. These cuts will hurt real people and make life…

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