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The Biden-Harris Administration will enter office at a time of national devastation. The new team faces a steep hill to climb, but a bold agenda can bring us recovery.
Olivia Golden reflects on CLASP's work over the last decade and looks ahead to how the organization will continue its efforts for economic and racial justice in the 2020s.
In his farewell speech last week, President Barack Obama declared that supporting young people of color is not only a matter of justice but a common-sense investment in our future. It's not just rhetoric. By 2020, children and youth of color will represent half of all people under age 18. If not for these children, the American workforce would shrink as baby boomers retire.
President Obama took office in the midst of the Great Recession—a low point for low-income children who faced the prospect of hunger, unstable housing or even homelessness, and a sharp cutback in work hours for their parents.
Over the last month or so, I have testified about America’s anti-poverty policies before two Congressional committees—the U.S.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s annual report on poverty, income, and health insurance, issued in mid-September, told a bad news/good news story.
Two-generational programs and policies aim to give struggling families a double boost—for example, by pairing high-quality early education for young children with employment and training opportunit
Earlier this month, I had the chance to testify in the latest of four Congressional hearings that Chairman Paul Ryan of the House Committee on the Budget has held about the War on Poverty, which marks its 50th anniversary this year.