Given the expiration of the final child care relief investments and the need for resources to implement the new Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) final rule, investments in child care in the FY2025 budget are critically important to ensure that positive progress made at the…
On March 23, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 into law. The act’s allocations for fiscal year (FY) 2024 included a significant increase of $725 million in discretionary funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). This…
In the most recent “Last Week Tonight” show, John Oliver focused on student debt and cited a 2022 report we co-authored with the National Consumer Law Center. Our report addressed the disproportionate impact of student debt on Black borrowers.
Today’s final rule on Improving Child Care Access, Affordability, and Stability in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the administration’s latest effort in a strategy to support the families who need care and the providers they depend on.
By Karen Schulman, Director of State Child Care Policy, NWLC, at Tiffany Ferrette, Senior Policy Analyst, Child Care and Early Education CLASP, in collaboration with NWLC, responded to a public comment about the update to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Plan Preprint for…
This week: Proposal to dismantle asylum would harm children, families RECENTLY FROM CLASP February 8, 2024 Short-sighted, Punitive Proposal to Dismantle Asylum Would Harm Children, Families Earlier this week, CLASP issued a statement urging Congress to reject harmful legislation that would gut the U.S. asylum system and…
By Alycia Hardy CLASP submits Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to the Office of Head Start to urge better wages and benefits for Head Start teachers, comprehensive mental health care, and quality improvements across the system. >>Read the full comments here
New results from the survey conducted by Data for Progress in collaboration with CLASP demonstrate the employment and financial challenges that parents face due to inaccessible child care.
By Ariel Gilreath EXCERPT: The cost of child care rose more for Black student fathers than other student parents in the last decade because they are less likely to have access to public child care benefits. From 2011 to 2019, the average cost for Black student…