Skip to main content
  • Contact Us
  • Press Room
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

CLASP

The Center for Law and Social Policy

  • About
    • Support CLASP
    • Board of Trustees
    • Careers
    • Financials
    • Advancing Racial Equity
    • Staff
  • Issues
    • Children, Youth & Families
      • Child Care and Early Education
        • Child Care Subsidies
      • Immigrant Children and Families
      • Two-Generation Policies
      • Youth and Young Adults
        • Young Adult Behavioral Health
        • Opportunity Youth
        • Youth Employment
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • State Technical Assistance
    • Health and Mental Health
      • Maternal Mental Health
      • Medicaid
      • Young Adult Behavioral Health
    • Income and Work Supports
      • Medicaid
      • Cross-Program Benefit Access
      • SNAP
      • TANF
      • Immigrant Access to Benefits
      • Refundable Tax Credits
    • Racial Equity
      • Immigrant Access to Benefits
      • Immigrant Children and Families
      • Criminal Justice
      • Data and Disparities
      • Young Men and Women of Color
    • Education, Labor & Worker Justice
      • Workforce Development
        • Youth Employment
        • WIOA Game Plan for Low-Income People
        • Work-Based Learning and Subsidized Employment
      • Adult and Postsecondary Education
        • Career Pathways
        • State Aid and Other Financial Supports
        • Federal Postsecondary Policy
      • Job Quality and Work/Life
        • Fair Job Schedules
        • Labor Standards Enforcement Series
        • Paid Family and Medical Leave
        • Paid Sick Days
  • Resources
    • Covid 19
    • CLASP at 50
  • Experts
  • Blog
  • Donate

April 29, 2021 | Press Release | Kisha Bird

Kisha Bird Steps Down as Director of Youth Policy; Nia West-Bey to Succeed Her May 1

After nearly 13 years of extraordinary creativity and leadership at CLASP—and as Director of Youth Policy since 2014—Kisha Bird will depart the organization on June 4.

March 9, 2021 | News Clip | Kisha Bird

The pandemic is hard for teens and hard for parents. These young women are both.

"Economic stability and removing financial strain is critical to supporting young families, said Kisha Bird, director of youth policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy."

February 11, 2021 | News Clip | Kisha Bird

Young Activists, CLASP Call For New Deal To Get Youth Jobs

Kisha Bird was quoted about why a New Deal for youth is needed.

December 22, 2020 | News Clip | Kisha Bird

Will Kwanzaa mean more in 2020, a year when Black Lives Matter, fight for social justice took center stage

Kisha Bird was quoted about celebrating Kwanzaa this year: "When I think about Kwanzaa now, I don’t think about it as necessarily just those particular days at the end of each year as a holiday per say, but how do we as Black people in…

November 18, 2020 | event | Kisha Bird

ACTION NEEDED: Four Local Strategies and Solutions for the Economic Recovery of Young Adults

On November 18, Kisha Bird will be presenting at ACTION NEEDED: Four Local Strategies and Solutions for the Economic Recovery of Young Adults.

October 22, 2020 | Press Release | Nia West-Bey

From Dire to Catastrophic—How the Pandemic Has Worsened the Well-being of Young People

New data paints a portrait of the state of young people, both before and since the pandemic

October 20, 2020 | Blog Post | Kisha Bird

Public Policy Was Already Failing Young People—Pandemic Is Making it Worse

“We live in a country that is more concerned about making up for lost profits instead of the rising death toll—massive unemployment rates and the ones that had hardships before the pandemic occurred—but continue.” —Christian “C-STEEZ” Sutton

September 25, 2020 | Blog Post | Kisha Bird

Justice is the absence of violence, the presence of healing

We once again are painfully reminded that a system rooted in white supremacy will never bring justice for Black lives. And we can no longer expect it to. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to demand justice for Breonna Taylor and the countless other…

July 22, 2020 | News Clip | Kisha Bird

Whatever happened to the classic teen summer job?

Kisha Bird was quoted: "For low-income young people living in high-poverty communities, first jobs — summer jobs — “have not necessarily been in their communities for decades."

July 6, 2020 | News Clip | Kisha Bird

Local law enforcement agencies using hundreds of pieces of military-grade equipment

“Those are equipment and weapons that are used on war,” Kisha Bird, with the Center for Law and Social Policy, said. “The signal that it is showing to communities that are over-policed, which is black communities in particular, is that we are at war with you.”

Content Type:

Publications

Articles:

Issue:

Author:

  • ABOUT CLASP
    • Advancing Racial Equity
    • Board of Trustees
    • State Technical Assistance
    • Careers
    • Staff
    • Financials
  • ISSUES
    • Children, Youth & Families
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • Health and Mental Health
    • Income and Work Supports
    • Jobs, Training & Education
    • Racial Equity
  • EXPERTS
    • Children, Youth & Families
    • Health and Mental Health
    • Federal Spending Priorities
    • Income and Work Supports
    • Jobs, Training & Education
    • Racial Equity
    • Experts A-Z Index
  • PRESS ROOM
    • Events
    • News Clips
    • Press Releases
  • SUPPORT CLASP
    • Make a Donation
    • Leadership Council

CLASP | 1310 L St. NW, Suite 900 | Washington, D.C. 20005 | (202) 906-8000

Copyright © 2023 by the Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. All Rights Reserved

  • Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy