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June 20, 2025 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

The Senate’s Budget Reconciliation Bill is Bad for Children and Families

Families are already struggling with higher costs of living, and the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill will only increase the costs of health care, food, and everyday necessities. The bill's text affirms that at its core, this is legislation that will drain money from the families…

May 22, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

House Reconciliation Bill Slashes Child and Family Supports to Fund Mass Deportation and Further Enrich the Wealthy

This bill guts health care, restricts access to food, sacrifices our higher education system, and punishes immigrant families, all to provide more tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations.

May 14, 2025 | News Clip | Ashley Burnside

Millions of immigrant families would be shut out under new child tax credit proposal

By Marissa Martinez (Excerpt) Some estimates show this change could impact 4.5 million children alone. Coupled with proposals from other committees that restrict access to Medicaid or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), immigrant and mixed-status families face drastically rising costs, according to Ashley Burnside,…

December 21, 2024 | News Clip | Lorena Roque

Some Republicans want a bigger child tax credit. Does it have a chance of becoming reality?

By Victor Reklaitis EXCERPT So does a larger child tax credit have a shot at becoming a reality? “I think it has a chance,” said Lorena Roque, an expert with the Center for Law and Social Policy, a left-leaning advocacy organization. She noted that Hawley…

November 3, 2024 | News Clip | Ashley Burnside

Harris wants to bring back the expanded child tax credit. Here’s why that’s good.

By Janna Herron  (EXCERPT) “One theme that really stuck out to me is just not only were these payments going towards bills, food and groceries,” said Ashley Burnside, a senior policy analyst at CLASP. “But it was also helping parents to be able to say…

October 11, 2024 | News Clip | Ashley Burnside

State, local guaranteed income programs set the stage for federal action

By Kaitlyn Levinson EXCERPT During the pandemic, however, Trump approved individual stimulus payments. While the payments weren’t exactly the same as guaranteed income programs, it suggested the former president was open to using cash distributions to help people in financial crises, said Ashley Burnside, senior policy…

September 25, 2024 | News Clip | Elizabeth Lower-Basch

Rural America’s Project 2025 Problem

By Janie Ekere EXCERPT “What we would like to see is it made fully refundable in whatever tax bill that we see in 2025 so that the families with the lowest incomes can continue to receive it,” said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, deputy executive director of policy…

September 24, 2024 | Blog Post | Eddie Martin, Jr.

Reflections on President Johnson’s War on Poverty in Light of the Recent Census Bureau Report

We must dismantle structural inequities that perpetuate racial and economic disparities. Dive deeper in this new blog.

September 11, 2024 | News Clip | Ashley Burnside

Main & Wall – Child Tax Credit

By Scripps News Ashley Burnside spoke to Main & Wall about the child tax credit. View the segment here.

September 10, 2024 | News Clip | Ashley Burnside

A bigger child tax credit could help students a lot. Will Harris or Trump make it happen?

By Kalyn Belsha EXCERPT “People like the child tax credit,” said Ashley Burnside, a senior policy analyst at The Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonprofit that supports expanding the child tax credit. Through surveys, her organization has seen this kind of policy can…

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