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Recommendations for urgent actions the Biden-Harris Administration should take to address the child care and early learning crisis to ensure the health and safety of early educators and families during COVID
This brief is part of a broad landscape analysis focused on policy and practice issues related to the recognition of prior learning.
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.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented threat to our economy and the livelihoods of workers and their families, particularly workers paid low wages and Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and immigrant workers. The U.S. economy is slowly recovering, but not at all evenly or equitably. Communties of color continue to face some of the most severe implications of an inequitable economy.
The United States is experiencing an unequal recovery. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented threat to our economy and the livelihoods of workers and their families, particularly workers paid low wages and Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and immigrant workers.
Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration for why paid leave is both urgent and fundamental to building a strong economy.
Over the past several months, CLASP has been collecting stories from workers nationwide to amplify and assess the needs of workers during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. This brief reports on some initial findings of workers’ challenges in balancing work and caring for themselves or loved ones when they are ill during this public health crisis.
By Dr. Kimá Taylor, Mental Health Advisory Board, and Isha Weerasinghe, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
This brief argues for a large-scale public employment program to react against a structurally racist and exclusionary labor market. It then lays out five principles of an equitable subsidized jobs program.
In this brief, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) spells out why federal fiscal relief is imperative for states to avoid harsh spending cuts that will have severe consequences on communities of color and the economic recovery.