CLASP

Ashley Blair, member of CLASP's Community Partnership Group, describes how raising children brings joy, but also financial strain, career sacrifice, and urgent need for stronger public policy supports.

Anti-trans policies harm transgender people, undermine women’s rights, restrict public life and work, and threaten broader civil rights for everyone.

Apprenticeship goals are undermined by funding cuts, layoffs, and anti-equity rollbacks that restrict access, growth, and worker opportunity.

Ensuring that everyone eats feels urgent, but it also feels possible. Our ancestors showed us how. They fed one another through conditions far worse than this. They survived because they had each other.

For Black women, safety has never been guaranteed. It has had to be demanded, defended, and organized for.

CLASP’s Parker Gilkesson Davis was featured on a podcast from the National Black Child Development Institute about food, health, and family well-being.

As someone who worked in those early days of the DACA program to ease fears and encourage youth to apply, it breaks my heart to see the trust they put into the process betrayed more than a decade later,” said Wendy Cervantes, a director at…

The State of the Union is supposed to be a moment for the nation to take stock and see who we are as a society. But Trump’s address was a work of fiction. The real state of our union is fragile, strained, and deeply unequal,…

“We’re not going to be able to quantify the harm that is going to happen, because we’ve now lost this large piece of data, and there is no other data set and collection of data that reaches this far and this wide,” said Parker Gilkesson…

This Black History Month calls us to commemorate the deep roots and ongoing consequences of inequity in the child care sector.