A young toddler having fun and laughing while being carried by her father, the family all excited on their way to catch a flight at the airport together.
The current benefit structures are reflective of decades of controlling policies implemented in response to sexist and racist assumptions that Black mothers applied for welfare at higher rates to avoid working and instead rely on government benefits for their livelihood.
Many states have high interest in coordinating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), but progress has been slow, according to new research from CLASP.
Schools across the US have been "lunch shaming" students who don't have enough money for school meals. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a potential way to address this issue.
President Trump’s FY 2018 budget proposes drastic cuts to employment, education, and training services that enable low-income youth and adults to improve skills and succeed in the workforce.
President Trump has proposed a paid family leave program that leaves out millions of workers and undermines our unemployment insurance system. The proposal comes in the same budget that slashes our country’s safety net programs, which help low-income families stay employed.
President Trump has released his FY 2018 budget proposal, which is an assault on low-income children and families. The proposal would cut billions of dollars from health, human services, nutrition, and education—redirecting those funds as tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy. While giving lip…
SNAP helps people from a variety of household sizes, ethnicities, and lived experiences. The single characteristic that connects all recipients is their need to access affordable food.
The Trump Administration is quietly moving to make administrative changes that will roll back protections for the more than 12.2 million people who use the Affordable Care Act’s “marketplaces” in their states to select a health care plan.
The increase of women in the workforce improves the economic security of their families and is essential for the economic health of the United States. However, after consistently rising over the past 30 years to almost half the workforce (46.8 percent), women’s labor force participation rates are…
In the first in a series of briefs on Opportunities for Addressing Postsecondary Student Poverty in the HEA, we examine the potential of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model.
In a speech to state human services agencies last week, U.S Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price outlined three priorities for his department: childhood obesity, opioid addiction, and mental health.
