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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.
Earlier this summer, SchoolHouse Connection hosted “Voices of Youth: A Discussion on Education, Resilience, Homelessness, and Hope” in partnership with Senators Patty Murray and Lisa Murkowski.
Following the latest collapse of the Senate proposal to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Senate leadership has revived the idea of simply repealing the ACA.
For low-income children, the need for high-quality health insurance has never been more urgent. States are taking action because they know that having health insurance leads to better access to care, lower financial burden on families, and better health outcomes.
Health care is crucial to infants and toddlers’ physical, cognitive, and emotional development. For low-income families, affordable health insurance provides young children and their parents with important services that would otherwise be too expensive, such as routine check-ups, prescription drugs, medical procedures, and specialized care.
A new brief from CLASP and ZERO TO THREE highlights the importance of health insurance to infants, toddlers, and their families as well as historic gains in coverage made under the Affordable Care Act.
After failing to gain support for their first health care bill, Senate Republican leadership has released a new bill, without making any substantive changes that would increase access to meaningful coverage. The new bill should be swiftly rejected.
For years, Pell grants have been the foundation of financial aid for low-income students seeking postsecondary education. These grants are among the many anti-poverty efforts that have struggled as Congress has slashed funding for federal programs, particularly those included in the Labor, Health and Human…
The federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program provides home visiting services to high-risk families. This fosters economic self-sufficiency, healthy development, and strong educational outcomes. However, without action from Congress, this crucial investment in families will expire in September.
A new brief from CLASP examines how California is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated. This is the first brief in our series “Reconnecting Justice in the States,” which will explore coordinated justice, education, and workforce policy and practice…
Increasingly, workers nationwide are demanding fair schedules. Their movement took a step forward when Oregon’s legislature approved Bill 828, making Oregon the first state to establish fair scheduling standards for thousands of retail, hospitality, and food service workers.
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