This briefing will focused on both the achievements and challenges in advancing the War on Poverty’s goals and discuss strategies for eliminating economic and racial injustices.
CLASP is pleased to announce the spinoff and launch of a new youth-focused nonprofit that builds upon two decades of youth policy work: The National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy.
By Mark Swartz (EXCERPT) Katharine Stevens, founder and president of the Center on Child and Family Policy, says “I’ve been part of these groups that talk about ‘consensus,’ but it’s consensus by mass bullying.” She objects to the approach where pundits “define a problem as the…
By C-SPAN Washington Journal Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty.
Insurance News Net shared CLASP’s May 3, 2024 statement on the Biden Administration’s announcement of a final rule extending affordable health coverage to immigrant youth. Read here
By INDIVAR DUTTA-GUPTA, DORIAN WARREN (Excerpt) In many ways, the War on Poverty was wildly successful, with Head Start, Medicaid, and Medicare withstanding the test of time. But the effort fell short: It did little to guarantee incomes or rewrite the nation’s economic rules to ensure…
Today’s final rule on Improving Child Care Access, Affordability, and Stability in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the administration’s latest effort in a strategy to support the families who need care and the providers they depend on.
February 6: Indi Dutta-Gupta spoke at “In This Together: A Cross-Partisan Action Plan to Support Families with Young Children in America,” a Capitol Hill panel discussion hosted by Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. View a clip here.