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Ashley Burnside was quoted about child tax credit payments.
"Ashley Burnside, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), describes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, as a 'critical tool in supporting student retention.'”
Ashley Burnside wrote a letter to the editor to the Washington Post about the expanded child tax credit.
“Lifting the ban on safety net supports reduces material hardship for formerly incarcerated people, who are exceedingly paid low earnings and face high rates of unemployment due to factors such as discrimination in hiring,” CLASP’s Darrel Thompson and Ashley Burnside wrote in a policy brief this year.
A CLASP report about college students and SNAP was featured in this weekly round-up.
Ashley Burnside was quoted about encouraging the Biden Administration to permanently remove the student work requirement in SNAP.
Ashley Burnside was quoted about the expansion of SNAP student eligibility during COVID-19.
A CLASP blog about the Biden-Harris Child Tax Credit proposal, authored by Ashley Burnside, was mentioned in this article.
"'Colleges should also conduct outreach to their students to inform them of these changes and notify them that they may be eligible for SNAP under this temporary legislation, and how to apply,' Ashley Burnside, a policy analyst at CLASP, wrote in a blog post."
Ashley Burnside was quoted about the importance of the SNAP program: “Students shouldn’t have to make the choice between going to class and being able to afford their next meal."