HUD’s proposed rule would allow work requirements and two-year limits on rental assistance, risking more evictions and homelessness. Evidence shows these policies do not improve employment or income, and they could divert resources from effective housing supports. Advocates argue HUD should expand assistance, not punish…

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.

Anti-trans policies harm transgender people, undermine women’s rights, restrict public life and work, and threaten broader civil rights for everyone.

Apprenticeship goals are undermined by funding cuts, layoffs, and anti-equity rollbacks that restrict access, growth, and worker opportunity.

Ensuring that everyone eats feels urgent, but it also feels possible. Our ancestors showed us how. They fed one another through conditions far worse than this. They survived because they had each other.

For Black women, safety has never been guaranteed. It has had to be demanded, defended, and organized for.

CLASP’s Parker Gilkesson Davis was featured on a podcast from the National Black Child Development Institute about food, health, and family well-being.

The State of the Union is supposed to be a moment for the nation to take stock and see who we are as a society. But Trump’s address was a work of fiction. The real state of our union is fragile, strained, and deeply unequal,…

This Black History Month calls us to commemorate the deep roots and ongoing consequences of inequity in the child care sector.

To create a country where all children have generational wealth, lawmakers and donors need to invest in cash programs that effectively target families based on income and wealth.