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April 24, 2025 | event | Suma Setty

Suma Setty and Rachel Wilensky speaks with Partnership for Community Action in New Mexico

April 24 | Suma Setty and Rachel Wilensky spoke at a meeting organized by the Partnership for Community Action in New Mexico on immigration and safe space policies.

April 15, 2025 | event | Rachel Wilensky

Rachel Wilensky, Suma Setty, and Priya Pandey present for Healthy Families America

April 15 | Rachel Wilensky, Suma Setty, and Priya Pandey presented on immigration policy, constitutional rights, and guidance for home visitors for Healthy Families America, a national network of home visitors.

April 10, 2025 | event | Rachel Wilensky

Rachel Wilensky speaks at the DC Early Learning Collaborative’s Town Hall

April 10 | Rachel Wilensky spoke on child care and immigration for the DC Early Learning Collaborative’s Town Hall on ECE Activism During a Time of Trumpism.

January 22, 2025 | Blog Post | Rachel Wilensky

State Allocations for CCDBG Emergency Funding

The Continuing Resolution includes $500 million for CCDBG, half of which will be used for disaster relief in affected states and the other half to be allocated among all states as emergency discretionary funding.

December 16, 2024 | News Clip | Stephanie Schmit

Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

By Jackie Mader EXCERPT Partly as a result, only a fraction of families — about 10 percent — who are eligible under the federal recommendation actually get subsidies, according to the Center for Law and Social Policy. The variance in state policies means a family may qualify…

October 08, 2024 | event | Rachel Wilensky

EARNTalk: State Progress in Advancing Equity in Child Care

CLASP and the Economic Policy Institute hosted a joint webinar on state progress in advancing equity in child care    Tuesday, October 8, 2024 2:00pm ET/1:00pm CT The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) hosted a webinar about equity…

September 11, 2024 | event | Rachel Wilensky

Rachel Wilensky will present at Economic Policy Institute’s annual Economic Analysis and Research Network Conference (EARNCon)

On Thursday, September 12th, Rachel Wilensky, Senior Policy Analyst on the Child Care and Early Education team, will deliver opening remarks and moderate a panel discussion at the Economic Policy Institute’s annual Economic Analysis and Research Network Conference (EARNCon). The plenary on Advancing Equity in…

May 19, 2024 | event | Stephanie Schmit

CLASP Child Care Experts Speak at Child Care Aware of America’s 2024 Symposium, “Raising Child Care, Raising America”

Register Now From May 19-22, CLASP’s Child Care and Early Education team will be presenting at Child Care Aware of America’s 2024 Symposium in Arlington, VA. The symposium is centered on the question: “How do we capitalize on our wins and lessons learned and boldly…

December 01, 2023 | event | Rachel Wilensky

2023 BUILD Conference

On December 1, Rachel Wilensky and Alycia Hardy presented on “Inequitable Access to Child Care: What it Looks Like and What can be Done About It,” at the 2023 BUILD Conference in Los Angeles, California. The session included a preview of new state level demographic…

October 24, 2023 | News Clip | Rachel Wilensky

Billions in federal child care relief just expired. Costs are already skyrocketing.

By Alia Wong, USA TODAY EXCERPT: “The funding that’s required is too significant for states to try to do this alone,” said Rachel Wilensky of the Center For Law and Social Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing policy solutions for low-income people. Read the full…

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