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May 8, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

On the Chopping Block: How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Mental Health

By Isha Weerasinghe and Jace Peterkin Medicaid is the nation’s single largest payer for mental health services and provides coverage for nearly 40 percent of all children in the United States. Medicaid also pays every 1 in 4 dollars for vital mental health and substance use disorder treatment. If…

March 24, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Suzanne Wikle

It’s a Cut to Medicaid No Matter What You Call It

Republicans in Congress have proposed enormous cuts to Medicaid, which provides insurance to more than 70 million people—or 1 in 5 Americans. One way they plan to cut Medicaid is by increasing red tape and limiting eligibility.

February 5, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Suzanne Wikle

Our Nation’s Health Depends on Medicaid

Cutting Medicaid and taking away people’s health care will harm millions of Americans, worsen our maternal health crisis, increase child poverty, and further jeopardize rural hospitals and other providers.

May 15, 2022 | Fact Sheet | Juan Carlos Gomez

Removing Barriers to Mental Health Care is Essential for Children to Thrive

New from the Children Thrive Action Network: A state-by-state analysis of Medicaid coverage and what is needed for immigrant families to thrive.

April 28, 2022 | Fact Sheet | Suzanne Wikle

Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement FAQ

In this FAQ, we break down what all key stakeholders—advocates, administrators, and enrollees—need to know about the unwinding of Medicaid’s continuous coverage requirement. 

June 22, 2020 | Fact Sheet

Text-based Mental Health in Medicaid: An Advocacy Explainer

State legislative action is necessary to expand the definition of telehealth to include text messaging and other forms of technology. Read more from CLASP's recent explainer.

October 15, 2018 | Fact Sheet

Workforce System not Funded or Structured to Help Medicaid Recipients Keep Health Care

This fact sheet shows how the programs funded under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the nation’s primary investment in workforce development, are neither funded nor structured to accommodate the sharply increased need created by proposed Medicaid work requirements.

September 24, 2018 | Fact Sheet

Public Charge: A New Threat to Immigrant Families

This fact sheet describes public charge, how it would harm health and wellbeing, and what you need to know if you work with immigrant families.

August 1, 2018 | Fact Sheet

Building Blocks Out of Poverty

Basic needs programs provide core supports that help low-income people immediately and shape positive impacts long term. But current threats and bad proposals would undermine these programs.

December 6, 2017 | Fact Sheet

Student Access to Benefits

This fact sheet provides an overview of today's students and recognizes some of the barriers to success they face. It concludes with recommendations for improving access to public benefits for college students.

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