By Eddie Martin, Jr. History has shown us that civil and human rights progress is often met with resistance, and the early days of the second Trump Administration have been no exception. After just six weeks, the nation faces a profound democratic threat, as the…
A new brief from CLASP examines the hard questions that students and policymakers are asking about postsecondary education and training outcomes at a time of sustained unemployment and sluggish job growth.
A new report from Feeding America, a network of over 200 food banks across the country, highlights troubling data and national trends on food insecurity (not knowing when or where your next meal will come from).
More than 4,000 hard working men and women die on the job every year, and tens of thousands more are injured or become ill from diseases contracted at work.
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
