On December 18, 2015, the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new set of regulations to implement the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) reauthorization.

CLASP issued this statement statement on the FY 2016 omnibus budget and improvements to refundable tax credits.

The U.S. House and Senate have released an omnibus funding bill for FY 2016 (the fiscal year that began on October 1). Thanks to the budget agreement made earlier in the fall, an increase in the overall discretionary budget authority allowed Congress to allocate funds for much-needed…

Statement from CLASP on the need for Congress to pass a clean, full-year Omnibus spending bill.

Child Care and Early Education Director Hannah Matthews is quoted in this story about how states are streamlining their child care assistance programs to help working families and their children.

Elizabeth Lower-Basch quoted in this story about how our nation's child care subsidy system is not meeting the needs of poor and low-income working families.

According to 2014 data on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states spent slightly more TANF funds on child care assistance than they did the previous year.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Congress has an important bit of unfinished business on this law: funding is required to meet the program's goals.

Blog post by David Socolow on the importance of fully funding federal programs that meet the needs of poor, low-income people.

The Continuing Resolution marks an ominous start to the fiscal year for crucial services that can help hard-working poor and low-income people lift themselves and their families to economic security.