On January 29, 2014, the House passed H.R. 2642, a negotiated agreement between House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders on the 5-year Farm Bill.

CLASP applauds the Obama Administration for its continued commitment to strengthening education for all Americans and for its attention to disadvantaged and nontraditional students.

Comprehensive services (including preventive health, mental health, and developmental screening) are key to children's success and an important part of high-quality child care.

President Obama highlighted the importance of the Earned Income Text Credit in his 2015 State of the Union address.

On December 31, 2014, the federal District Court for the Middle District of Florida issued final judgment on the state’s 2011 law mandating suspicionless-based drug testing for TANF applicants.

Dwight C. Jones, mayor of Richmond, VA, is facing a $20 million dollar budget gap, but he believes that gap is no excuse to avoid working to address a pressing problem: the city’s poverty.

As 2014 begins, states have a unique opportunity to enact work sharing programs that have the potential to save thousands of jobs.

The President has signed a 2014 spending bill, which includes a substantial increase of $1.4 billion for child care and early education. Over $1 billion of that increase is for Head Start, the nation’s early childhood program for poor children. 

A new study by Young Invincibles, “In This Together,” demonstrates the dire situation young adults face in today’s labor market a and the economic consequences of youth unemployment to our nation.

As the result of bi-partisan negotiations, Congress arrived this week at a $1.1 trillion federal omnibus budget agreement that sets spending levels for each federal program. This post summarizes how the budget affects postsecondary education.