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While federal policies remain essential for widespread reform, the power of community-led efforts demonstrates that change is possible—one city, state, and coalition at a time.
This week, CLASP submitted testimony for the record to the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources on the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
President Obama has taken executive action several times in 2014 to try to move the needle on what many feel is an unacceptable level of inequality in the United States.
The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently made an important contribution to the broader discussion of educational equity by releasing long-unavailable district- and state-level data highlighting racial and ethnic disparities in access to quality education and the treatment of students.
In a recent publication, Ensuring Full Credit Under TANF’s Work Participation Rate, CLASP highlights the opportunities that states have to count individuals participating in education and training toward the TANF work rate.
On March 31, 2014, the Senate followed the House lead in passing the “Protecting Access to Medicare Act,” which provided a short-term patch to prevent a reduction in Medicare payments to physicians
The federal Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive!, an initiative to provide pediatricians and community-based service providers with the tools and information they need to promote developmental and behavioral screening…
Today, CLASP released a new brief that explores the relationship between job scheduling and child care. Scrambling for Stability: The Challenges of Job Schedule Volatility and Child Care lays out the difficulties many low-income parents face as they navigate the mazes of volatile job schedules and child…
Today, the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights released new data on the condition of our nation’s schools with regard to racial and ethnic disparities in access to quality education and fair treatment of students.
While the concept of the Universal Credit and the simplifying multiple programs may seem appealing in theory, policymakers should take note of cautionary lessons from the United Kingdom’s experience.
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