On September 12, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the College Student Hunger Relief Act (AB 1747), a bill designed to improve benefits access for low-income college students. 

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…

Congress needs to strengthen the EITC to encourage and reward work for childless workers.

On the eve of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2013, Kentucky’s uninsurance rate was 16 percent—higher than the national average.

In this blog post, Hannah Matthews explains how the investment in child care by TANF has been shrinking and why more federal investment is necessary.

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.