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May 5, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Hannah Matthews

CLASP Testimony ‘In Their Own Words: Paid Leave, Child Care and an Economy that Failed Women’

CLASP's testimony in response to the Ways and Means Committee's hearing on April 21, 2021 on Paid Leave and Child Care.

March 10, 2021 | Fact Sheet | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Child Care Relief Funding in American Rescue Plan: State-by-State Estimates

While the sector received a critical down payment on relief from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, President Biden’s American Rescue Plan offers a bold investment in child care relief, finally delivering on the promise…

January 28, 2021 | Fact Sheet | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Why Child Care Needs Direct Spending, Not Just Tax Credits, During COVID and Beyond

To support child care through COVID and to ensure a robust recovery and an equitable economy in the future, child care requires at least $50 billion in direct public spending to support providers and families.

December 22, 2020 | Fact Sheet | Alycia Hardy

Child Care Relief Funding in the Year-End Stimulus Deal: A State-by-State Estimate

Our country’s existing and long-term child care crisis—inequitable access for communities of color, poverty-level wages for early educators, and unaffordable care for far too many families— has been exacerbated by the devastating, inequitable impa

November 30, 2020 | Report/Brief | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Urgently Address the Child Care Crisis and Invest in Equitable Child Care and Early Learning for All

Recommendations for urgent actions the Biden-Harris Administration should take to address the child care and early learning crisis to ensure the health and safety of early educators and families during COVID

November 20, 2020 | Report/Brief | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Child Care and Early Learning: Addressing the Urgent Crisis and Investing in the Future

CLASP helped lead the development of these child care and early learning recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team. We were one of 187 organizations that endorsed these recommendations to ensure a strong, equitable child care and early learning system that not only benefits children, families, and…

September 3, 2020 | Report/Brief | Stephanie Schmit

A Pandemic within a Pandemic: How Coronavirus and Systemic Racism Are Harming Infants and Toddlers of Color

This brief unpacks the impacts of systemic racism on children’s development and describes how the coronavirus pandemic has magnified pervasive inequities in health, education, employment, and other factors across race and ethnicity.

July 14, 2020 | Report/Brief | Shiva Sethi

An Anti-Racist Approach to Supporting Child Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond

The coronavirus has revealed and worsened racial inequities across the child care sector. This report explains the origins of long-standing inequities in early education, examines how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated them, and offers recommendations for how stakeholders can address them to build a fairer system. 

July 7, 2020 | Testimony/Comments | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Statement for the Record House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing: Child Care and the Coronavirus Pandemic

On July 7, CLASP submitted this statement for the record after the House Ways and Means Worker and Family Support subcommittee hearing on June 23, 2020. 

June 8, 2020 | Presentation/Webinar | Katherine Gallagher Robbins

WEBINAR: Who Gives Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

On May 27, 2020 Katherine Gallagher Robbins presented on a webinar hosted by Oxfam America about Who Gives Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

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