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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.
CLASP's testimony in response to the Ways and Means Committee's hearing on April 21, 2021 on Paid Leave and Child Care.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
Policymakers have an opportunity in the next economic recovery package to pass inclusive and comprehensive paid leave – like the recently re-introduced Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act – and ensure workers get the most critical components of an equitable and accessible paid leave program.
The Equality Act may help members of the LGBT community when they face discrimination on the job, but it doesn’t address the discrimination that keeps us in low-paying jobs and continually falling into poverty.
This fact sheet analyzes data from the most recent survey on workers’ and worksites’ experiences with FMLA. The factsheet highlights some of the disparities for the workers who most desperately need leave—strengthening our case that workers need a comprehensive paid leave policy.
Colorado recently won paid family and medical leave through a historic ballot initiative. The passing of Proposition 118 was possible thanks to the work of grassroots organizers and advocates who were willing to build on lessons learned from the nine states and D.C. that already have paid leave programs.
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.