By Ela Jalil (EXCERPT) Christian Collins, a policy analyst for the Center for Law and Social Policy who focuses on post-secondary education, said that parking citations are just another financial barrier for students to overcome to get a degree. Collins also noted that punishments like…
Excerpt from letter to the editor by Wendy Cervantes: “Immigration actions cause long-lasting harm and trauma for children. That’s true whether the Department of Homeland Security separates families, as was the case in The Post’s story; removes them together and sends them back to potential…
By Lindsay Lee Wallace EXCERPT: “The political coercion is a form of threat under the [National Labor Relations Act],” said Lorena Roque, interim director of education, labor, and worker justice at the Center for Law and Social Policy. “Being forced to do any of these things is…
By Blake Ellis,Melanie Hicken, Anna-Maja Rappard and Kyung Lah (EXCERPT) “It’s literally a kid’s worst nightmare having someone come take your parents in the middle of the night,” said Wendy Cervantes, a longtime immigration policy expert who has worked with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to…
By Julian Aguilar (EXCERPT) Wendy Cervantes, the director of immigration and immigrant families at the Center for Law and Social Policy, said the administration can grant humanitarian parole under current law. “Our laws allow for humanitarian parole for these exact reasons, to protect U.S. citizens…
By Monica Potts (EXCERPT) “Women who might leave the labor force for child rearing or taking paid leave only make 76 cents compared to a man’s dollar,” said Lorena Roque, director of education, labor, and worker justice at the Center for Law and Social Policy.…
By Lydia DePillis (EXCERPT) “There was a concerted effort under the Biden-Harris administration to focus on access to not just jobs, but also trying to improve the quality of jobs that didn’t require a college degree,” said Wendy Chun-Hoon, who led the Women’s Bureau at…
By Christopher Rugaber {EXCERPT) Wendy Chun-Hoon, president and executive director at the Center for Law and Social Policy, said that the expiration of the Biden administration’s child tax credit, as well as subsidies for child care and other aid, have made it harder to cut…
By Russell Payne (EXCERPT) The GOP attacks on public benefits and immigration policy “threaten the supply of care that’s already hard to find,” Rachel Wilensky, a senior analyst on child care and early education at the Center for Law and Social Policy, told Salon. Wilensky…