CLASP

"The CLASP report calls for federal and state programs, including Head Start, to collect discipline data on publicly funded centers and track disparities by race and ethnicity."

This article quotes Alycia Hardy on state use of CCDBG funds.

The pervasive, persistent, and racist inequities within the banking system for Black communities created barriers to establishing the kinds of banking relationships necessary to access those loans, making them virtually inaccessible.

"Last week, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released an analysis estimating that one million new children would be served with the increase in CCDBG funding."

"According to the Center on Law and Social Policy, the plan would benefit more than 1 million children with increased access to affordable child care and early learning services."

This article quotes Alycia Hardy: "For example, the availability of child care remains about 12 percent lower than it was before 2020, according to Alycia Hardy."

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released a new analysis today on the revamped proposal showing that more than one million new children and their families could receive child care assistance to lower their costs through just the historic investment in the Child Care and…

Alycia Hardy was quoted: “That reduction in spending is really more of a reflection of lack of access to care and lack of economic stability for families to be able to afford care."

This article cites a CLASP brief to demonstrate that a claim was “mostly false”.

For decades, insufficient public investments in child care have created a domino effect of economic burdens and instability for families and providers.