The report argues that these harms deepen poverty and inequity, especially for women of color, and calls for worker-centered paid leave policies with job protection, anti-retaliation measures, strong wage replacement, inclusive family definitions, paid sick days, and bereavement leave.
Narrowing the joint employment standard at a moment when the traditional employer-employee relationship is increasingly rare will severely limit workers’ access to vital statutory rights, including minimum wage, overtime pay, and job-protected leave.
By Teon Hayes New brief from CLASP argues that allowing SNAP participants to buy rotisserie chicken is a helpful but a far too limited reform. SNAP’s ban on most hot or prepared foods does not reflect the realities of many families, workers, older adults, disabled…
By Kaelin Rapport The brief argues that punitive responses to homelessness, substance use, and mental health challenges—such as forced treatment, detention, and reduced housing assistance—repeat historic failures that pushed people into institutions, prisons, and homelessness instead of care. Rather than criminalizing people in crisis, policymakers…
“Caregiving in Crisis: How Immigration Policies are Undermining Early Care and Education Programs” looks at the extent to which the Trump Administration’s policies and executive orders have destabilized the early education and child care sector since January 2025, putting providers in a position where they…
The people who educate, care, and advocate for the nation’s youngest children are directly feeling the effects of federal immigration policies. “Caregiving in Crisis” details the findings from interviews with people who serve immigrant families with children ages five and younger in early care and…
“Even the Playground Isn’t Safe” focuses on the pervasive fear and uncertainty immigrant parents and their young children have been living with since the beginning of Trump’s second term.
For decades, the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has enforced a monthly asset limitof $2,000 for individuals and $3,000 for married couples. These outdated limits, which have not changed since 1989, may have initially been intended to ensure strict eligibility. But now they act…
CLASP submitted comments in response to a federal request for information on the future of college sports, urging policymakers to center fairness, educational opportunity, and economic security for student-athletes. Our response addresses compensation, financial aid, NIL, revenue sharing, Title IX, and employment status, and makes…