Young volunteer gives grocery sack to young needy family, food was donated by local neighbors. Vegetable, fruit, and bread food items are in the bag. Service, kindness, charity, donation, community outreach themes.
By Parthenia Tawfik No child should have to think about whether their mom ate breakfast. But in many immigrant families across the United States, that small sacrifice is not an exception—it’s the norm. So are lunch boxes packed with too little, and school days that…
According to a new study, workers in Washington, D.C. often receive their schedules with just a few days’ notice. They also don't have get enough hours to make ends meet.
CLASP submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on three Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs), each of which addressed different aspects of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
CLASP, in partnership with Lumina Foundation and more than 40 other organizations, is cosponsoring a national dialogue on how to transform our nation’s highly diverse and fragmented education and workforce credentialing system.
Based on the most recently available data, CLASP and NWLC have created fact sheets that provide a snapshot of selected provisions of the CCDBG reauthorization and states current policies in related areas.
A new CLASP fact sheet provides an overview of the research showing why child care assistance is so important to low-income, vulnerable families, and highlights the need for increased investments in these programs.
California is on its way to repealing its maximum family grant rule, effectively granting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance to thousands of poor children who were previously capped from receiving benefits.
Last week, a bipartisan group of House Members introduced H.R.2518, the “Student Right to Know Before You Go” Act of 2015. The legislation would help students, families, and policymakers the information improve postsecondary education decisions.
