Today’s participation numbers are an urgent warning that access is eroding. Before making additional cuts, we owe families something much simpler: the commitment to understand why they are disappearing from these programs and to remove the barriers keeping them from the care they deserve. The…
By Jessica Washington Excerpt: “We are seeing a trend around the administration scapegoating immigrants and not pointing to the actual bad actors: corporations,” said Isha Weerasinghe, director of the public benefits justice team at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington-based nonprofit that…
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…
CLASP’s Kaelin Rapport and Suma Setty were invited to publish this blog as part of the Foundation for Child Development’s Spark series curated by Vivian Tseng, FCD President and CEO, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, University Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, NYU Steinhardt. Excerpt: Since January 2025, 6,200…
This event has already happened. Please see the full recording, learn more about the speakers, and find a list of resources below. On June 25, 2026, the latest installment of CLASP’s Equity Matters series focused on how racism shapes fraud narratives of public benefits programs…
By Cristina Tudino Excerpt: But on his second day in office, Trump revoked that policy. An April 2026 report by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) confirms that ICE is making it harder for childcare workers to do their jobs while also preventing working parents…
By Stateside Staff Kaelin Rapport appeared on this Michigan Public Radio show to talk about the reports he co-authored with Suma Setty that examined the effects of immigration enforcement on families with young children and the caregivers who support them. Listen to this show on Michigan…
By Mackenzie Wilkes Excerpt: “All of these attacks, like on birthright citizenship, on Plyler and access to K-12 education, on access to programs like Head Start — that are specifically designed to help children be able to succeed in school and get a good start at…
The Center for Law and Social Policy, CLASP, a liberal anti-poverty advocacy organization, released the reports Thursday, April 16 after interviewing dozens of people last year across seven states including Michigan. The interviews were conducted from July through November with 56 immigrant parents of young…
Researchers at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a national, anti-poverty nonprofit, have been examining the impact this administration’s immigration agenda is having on young children and their caregivers.