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April 2, 2025 | Report/Brief | Priya Pandey

A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs

This guide explains how early childhood providers can create "safe space" policies to protect immigrant families in their programs.

September 17, 2024 | Report/Brief | Isha Weerasinghe

Policy Framework for Immigrant Mental Health

This framework intends to provide a unifying set of goals across actors and movements to improve immigrant mental health and well-being in the United States.

June 27, 2024 | Report/Brief | Alycia Hardy

Child Care Assistance Landscape: Inequities in Federal and State Eligibility and Access

This national report and series of state fact sheets analyze variations in eligibility and access to Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies in 2020.

December 11, 2023 | Report/Brief | Suma Setty

Issue Brief: Broken Hope: Deportation’s Harms and The Road Home

Learn how immigration policy and trends changed—and didn’t—between the Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.

June 13, 2023 | Report/Brief | Suma Setty

Still at Risk: The Urgent Need to Address Immigration Enforcement’s Harms to Children

A new report from CLASP and UnidosUS analyzes trends in interior enforcement and documents the negative impact on children’s economic security.

May 8, 2023 | Report/Brief | Akosua Meyers

CLASP 2022 Impact Report

In 2020, the tragic impact of the global pandemic and recession on families’ lives increased demand for our work across the board–new ideas in Congress, technical assistance to federal and state agencies, and partnerships with our advocacy colleagues. We put forth ideas during this period…

September 14, 2022 | Report/Brief | Priya Pandey

Historic 2021 Decline in Child Poverty Proves Effectiveness of Federal Investments

The release of 2021 poverty and health insurance coverage data from the U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates how government action in response to the pandemic stabilized households, uplifted millions of people from poverty, and brought uninsurance rates to historic lows.

September 15, 2021 | Report/Brief | Hannah Matthews

Census Data Demonstrate Success of Federal Investments to Address Poverty

The Census Bureau annual release on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage shows that government investments in 2020 successfully reduced poverty.

August 11, 2021 | Report/Brief | Tiffany Ferrette

Supporting Immigrant Providers and Families Through Child Care Relief Funds

The previous four years, which included the COVID-19 pandemic, an ensuing economic crisis, and a series of anti-immigrant policies, led the country to an inflection point. Child care is a critical support for all children and families—including immigrant families who comprise a significant share of…

July 12, 2021 | Report/Brief | Adewale Maye

Essential and Invisible: The Urgent Case for Supporting Immigrant Essential Workers

This report highlights key barriers faced by immigrant essenital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and advocates for an equitable economic recovery.

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