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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.

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 11, 2025 | Blog Post | Isha Weerasinghe

Attacks on DEI Negatively Affect Prenatal and Postpartum Mental Health

April 11-17, 2025 is Black Maternal Health Week. Current proposed cuts to Medicaid and DEI programs threaten to diminish the physical and mental health of Black women.

March 28, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

Latest Round of HHS Cuts Will Further Harm Children, Families & People with Low Incomes

CLASP decries the cuts announced yesterday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These reductions will affect mental health, disabled people, rural communities, vaccines for children, and community health workers who address inequities for people across the lifespan, among others.

March 11, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Cervantes

Cutting Off DACA Recipients from the ACA Is Latest Move Showcasing the Administration’s Cruelty

The proposed rule makes clear that this administration will continue to waste time on policies that hurt our families, communities, and collective well-being rather than working to actually make the United States healthier. 

August 23, 2024 | Blog Post | Suzanne Wikle

2023 Health Insurance Rates Likely to Fall After Recent Record Highs

2023 data from the Census Bureau may show an increase in uninsurance as millions of people were disenrolled from Medicaid starting in April 2023 when one of these provisions expired – with more threats ahead.

May 15, 2024 | Blog Post | Alisha Saxena

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Let’s Talk About Maternal Mental Health.

By Alisha Saxena and Isha Weerasinghe While May is Mental Health Awareness Month, May 5-11 was also Maternal Mental Health Appreciation Week. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country. Using data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees from 2017-2019, the…

October 19, 2023 | Blog Post | Alisha Saxena

Global Mental Health Month: Making a Difference in Maternal Mental Health

To address the maternal mental health crisis, Congress must meaningfully invest in maternal mental health supports and services to better address the well-being of birthing people at this critical time in their lives. 

July 4, 2023 | News Clip | Nia West-Bey

Hayes, Blumenthal push for legislation to address disparities in maternal health outcomes

A CLASP report on maternal mental health was referenced.

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