The just-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes important and long-overdue investments to help restore fairness in our tax system, reduce health care costs, and address the climate crisis.
Food insecurity has adverse, long-term effects on children, impacting them in adulthood. The improved Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill takes a critical step to creating a solid foundation that allows students to flourish and grow.
The proposed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a significant step forward for restoring fairness to our tax system, reducing health care coverage costs, and addressing the climate crisis—which disproportionately harms communities of color and those with low incomes—even as it falls far short of…
Despite the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law over 30 years ago, our nation still has work to do before achieving true equity and economic justice for people with disabilities.
If you were claimed as a dependent in 2020, but not in 2021, you can be eligible for the third stimulus payment—even if someone received a payment on your behalf. Read on for a breakdown of some of the basic rules you need to know.
A new paper details the racist roots of administrative burdens in Medicaid, describes how these burdens continue to harm eligible people – particularly people of color—and provides specific recommendations for states to reduce administrative burden as a key strategy for advancing racial equity in Medicaid.
There have been increasing reports across different states of people who use EBT cards falling victim to card ‘skimming’ schemes, which is detrimental for people receiving SNAP and TANF who are living in poverty. CLASP recommends actions for state agencies.
Indivar Dutta-Gupta was quoted: “Some of the families you most want to reach through means-tested programs are the ones who are going to struggle the most to document income, resources or lack thereof."
Indivar Dutta-Gupta was quoted: “Some of the families you most want to reach through means-tested programs are the ones who are going to struggle the most to document income, resources or lack thereof."