CLASP is joined by over 70 national, state, and local organizations in calling on Senate Leadership and the Biden-Harris Administration to pass the Build Back Better (BBB) Act with a pathway to citizenship by any means possible, including by disregarding the parliamentarian’s opinion.
Standardized enforcement of the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) long-held discriminatory effects liability is necessary to uncover policies and practices that have an unjustified discriminatory effect—regardless of intent—and legally require that the practice be replaced.
CLASP commends the Biden Administration and HUD's decision to effectively restore all definitions associated with affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH) that were codified in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and subsequent court decisions.
CLASP joined Heartland Alliance, the National Youth Employment Coalition and nearly 100 national and local organizations calling on Congress to include an equity-centered national subsidized employment program as a part of the forthcoming recovery package as recommended by President Biden in his American Jobs Plan.
CLASP joined over 90 state, local and national criminal justice, workforce development, antipoverty, and racial equity organizations in calling for Congress to ensure youth and adults impacted by the criminal legal system remain a priority in the American Jobs Plan.
In this letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, CLASP presents recommendations to promote high-quality apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships to ensure that students with low incomes, students of c