By Kayla Tawa As mental health concerns and awareness around mental health challenges have increased, policymakers have prioritized mental health policy. Within these conversations, there is a broad recognition that far too often people experiencing mental health challenges encounter the criminal legal system rather than…
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.
Policymakers must adopt a more nuanced understanding of the roles systemic divestment, place-based disadvantage, anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, mass criminalization and other critical factors have in driving community violence.
Washington, DC, March 18, 2024—CLASP and dozens of other civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) today demanding a total ban on federal funding for school surveillance systems that rely on algorithms and other AI-enabled technology for predictive policing…
By Suma Setty and Lynn Tramonte CLASP’s racial equity team’s February monthly meeting was led by Lynn Tramonte of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, and our own, Suma Setty, senior policy analyst on the immigration team, who presented their new book, Broken Hope: Deportation and the…
The recently re-introduced Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act hopes to build on the successes of state models to establish a comprehensive and inclusive federal paid leave policy that meets the needs of workers.
President Biden’s State of the Union address makes it clear that he has decided to continue down the path of enforcing harmful and failed immigration policies rather than strengthen our country by supporting and welcoming immigrants as he promised in his 2020 campaign.
We envision our country’s economic future at its best—a nation of thriving communities with economic opportunity for all. To that end, we propose a new federal Youth and Young Adult Development and Economic Opportunity (YYADEO) system to replace the youth workforce development system currently mandated…
The DOL found that child labor violations increased in 2023: 5,800 children were employed in violation of labor law, an increase of 14 percent from the previous year and 88 percent from 2019. But this likely underestimates the prevalence of child labor across the United…