Health and Mental Health

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks to the press during his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Jeffries spoke about how the Republican budget cuts would affect Medicaid and food assistance. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

July 01, 2025 |

Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires

CLASP urges House lawmakers to reject this damaging bill and focus on policies that put workers, children, and families ahead of billionaires.

June 26, 2025 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

The Silent Link: The Food System’s Role in Black Maternal Mortality

June 05, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

Trump’s Budget Proposal Upends Children, Families, Immigrants, and Workers

June 04, 2025 | Press Release | Wendy Chun-Hoon

CLASP and Union Ratify First Collective Bargaining Agreement

Affordable health care is essential for physical and mental health, financial security, and employment success. However, workers with low incomes rarely have access to health insurance through their jobs and cannot afford to buy insurance without help. That’s why Medicaid is critical. It provides comprehensive health coverage that prevents illness, promotes children’s development, and supports employment. CLASP works to protect and build on historic gains in insurance coverage made through the Affordable Care Act—fighting back against federal efforts to repeal and block grant Medicaid and pressing states to expand their programs. We also address challenges central to the well-being of individuals and families with low incomes, like accessing maternal depression treatment and young adult behavioral health.

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Suzanne Wikle

Associate Director for State Health Policy and Advocacy

Health and Mental Health

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July 01, 2025 | Press Release | Adult and Postsecondary Education

Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires

June 26, 2025 | Blog Post | Health and Mental Health

The Silent Link: The Food System’s Role in Black Maternal Mortality

June 05, 2025 | Press Release | Children, Youth & Families

Trump’s Budget Proposal Upends Children, Families, Immigrants, and Workers

June 04, 2025 | Press Release | Children, Youth & Families

CLASP and Union Ratify First Collective Bargaining Agreement

May 22, 2025 | Press Release | Adult and Postsecondary Education

House Reconciliation Bill Slashes Child and Family Supports to Fund Mass Deportation and Further Enrich the Wealthy

WIOA Opportunities for Action

CLASP is committed to making WIOA work. That’s why we’ve developed short, action-focused memos outlining how states, local areas, advocates, and service providers can leverage opportunities to serve low-income youth and adults through state and local plans, policies and guidance, and budget choices.

WIOA "Opportunities for Action" memos

Publications Fact Sheets | Presentations | Published Articles | Reports & Analyses | Testimonies & Comments

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Testimony/Comments | May 14, 2025

CLASP Statement for the Record for the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions “Hearing on Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget”

Testimony/Comments | May 14, 2025

CLASP Statement for the Record for the United States House Committee on Appropriations “Budget Hearing- Health and Human Services”

Fact Sheet | May 08, 2025

On the Chopping Block: How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Mental Health

Fact Sheet | May 01, 2025

Why SAMHSA’s Mental Health Block Grant Must Include Early Intervention and Prevention

Report/Brief | April 23, 2025

Medicaid Financing: Dangers of Block Grants and Per Capita Caps Summary and Full Report

Our Team

Isha Weerasinghe

Director of Public Benefits Justice

Parker Gilkesson Davis

Senior Policy Analyst, Public Benefits Justice

Priya Pandey

Policy Analyst, Immigration and Immigrant Families

Stephanie Schmit

Director, Child Care and Early Education

Suzanne Wikle

Associate Director for State Health Policy and Advocacy

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Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Sacrifices the Well-Being of Working Families to Give Tax Breaks to Billionaires

The Silent Link: The Food System’s Role in Black Maternal Mortality

Trump’s Budget Proposal Upends Children, Families, Immigrants, and Workers

CLASP and Union Ratify First Collective Bargaining Agreement

Suzanne Wikle

Health and Mental Health

New from CLASP

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