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Hannah Matthews co-authored an op-ed for The Hill about the need to upgrade the nation's care infrastructure.
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.
CLASP's testimony in response to the Ways and Means Committee's hearing on April 21, 2021 on Paid Leave and Child Care.
Hannah Matthews discussed child care and early education and the American Families Plan on this episode.
Hannah Matthews spoke on C-SPAN about child care, education, and labor proposals in President Biden’s American Families Plan.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
A robust, equitable, inclusive economic recovery must include investment in good jobs for all, the care economy, income supports, and mental health; a pathway to citizenship for immigrant workers; and it must center those who have been historically disinvested in.
To respond to the COVID-19 crisis, which brought into focus the enormous depth of cracks in our public systems, CLASP shifted into high gear—recognizing that our mission to root out poverty and advance racial equity were well matched to this moment.
A set of recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration to address the harm to children in immigrant families have been through.
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.