Money bag and wooden blocks with the word Debt and a miniature house on the scales. Payment of debt for real estate. Pay off the mortgage loan. Risks of buying a house. Buying an apartment on credit.
Ashley Blair, member of CLASP's Community Partnership Group, describes how raising children brings joy, but also financial strain, career sacrifice, and urgent need for stronger public policy supports.
The Census Bureau’s annual report on poverty, income, and health coverage shows major economic improvement on a number of indicators, including a drop in poverty from 14.8 percent of Americans in 2014 to 13.5 percent in 2015.
A new guidebook from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab provides college employees, as well as poverty advocates, strategies to address student housing insecurity and costs of living in higher education. Specifically, it suggests action steps to address high…
For single-parent families, child support from non-custodial parents is a critical way to reduce poverty. The Child Support Enforcement program (CSE) serves 16 million children as well as 22 million parents and caregivers each year. A recent report from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) highlights…
In 2015, TANF spending on child care decreased by $45 million in 2015. Nationally, about $2.6 billion of TANF funds were used for child care through direct spending on child care and transfers to the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG).
CLASP has released a new memo in our WIOA Game Plan Opportunities for Action series. It serves as a reference guide on the WIOA adult program’s priority of service provision.
Today’s economy increasing requires post-secondary credentials for good jobs. President Obama has said every American should have at least one year of postsecondary education and training, leading to a credential. Yet our anti-poverty programs have rules that directly contradict those goals.
