This new fact sheet shows how Build Back Better investments in care—including child care and pre-k, the child tax credit, and paid family and medical leave—will help children and families.
The Census Bureau annual release on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage shows that government investments in 2020 successfully reduced poverty.
A robust, equitable, inclusive economic recovery must include investment in good jobs for all, the care economy, income supports, and mental health; a pathway to citizenship for immigrant workers; and it must center those who have been historically disinvested in.
Each year the Census Bureau releases national data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States for the previous year. The release of 2019 data provides a snapshot of where we were as a country prior to the coronavirus pandemic and before…
The next COVID-19 response package must comprehensively address the health and economic circumstances of individuals with low incomes. This brief outlines key priorities that Congress must include in the next legislative package to do so.
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is grateful for the opportunity to comment on considerations for additional measures of poverty to inform the work of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Povert
As families and communities grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, child care should be a front-and-center issue. Federal and state policymakers must move swiftly to respond to the growing child care crisis using the following health care principles.