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Alyssa Fortner, Alycia Hardy, and Stephanie Schmit detail the importance of significant and sustained direct spending for school-age child care. This fact sheet highlights a new CLASP analysis estimating that it would cost between $48.4 billion and $79.6 billion to reach all school-age children eligible through CCDBG.
This co-authored report introduces a framework for how emergency rental assistance programs can give priority to renters most impacted by COVID-19 and at greatest risk of housing instability at every stage of program administration.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
We compiled these frequently asked questions (FAQs) to support those who work with unhoused, unbanked, and/or immigrant communities, as well as the people directly impacted, in understanding how to access their stimulus payment
A basic income pilot in Stockton, California provided $500 monthly payments to 125 residents with no strings attached. From improved family wellbeing and financial stability to an increase in full-time employment, these positive impacts hold hope for the refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC).
CLASP helped lead the development of these child care and early learning recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team. We were one of 187 organizations that endorsed these recommendations to ensure a strong, equitable child care and early learning system that not only benefits children, families, and early educators but also keeps women in the workforce, increases racial equity, and strengthens our economy for everyone.
New York Times article referenced a CLASP report on CCDBG.
This brief unpacks the impacts of systemic racism on children’s development and describes how the coronavirus pandemic has magnified pervasive inequities in health, education, employment, and other factors across race and ethnicity.
New brief describes how the pandemic is only worsening long-standing racial inequities for infants, toddlers, and families of color.
On July 7, CLASP submitted this statement for the record after the House Ways and Means Worker and Family Support subcommittee hearing on June 23, 2020.