Immigrants need access to public benefits like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP. Inclusive federal policies are crucial for this access, as anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric have eroded trust in government institutions among immigrant communities.
Child care has long been unaffordable and inaccessible for many families. The Child Care Development Fund, the primary federal funding source to help families with low incomes access child care, is a crucial support for many families. However, Congress has never funded child care at…
The Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN), along with seven partners and one independent researcher, held listening sessions across the country to learn about the concerns, desires, and challenges of immigrant parents and youth.
This brief details the many ways in which immigrant families have been left behind during the pandemic and provides recommendations on how the federal government can be proactive in meeting the needs of immigrants and their families.
Policymakers left immigrants behind with harsh immigration tactics and by denying them the health, nutrition, economic, and educational supports they need to survive.
The United States should prioritize the wellbeing of young children in our laws and policies. Yet the current administration has been indifferent to—and even motivated by—the harmful consequences of its immigration policy priorities for up to 7.5 million young children in immigrant families across the…
On September 12, CLASP along with the National Housing Law Project and the Food Research & Action Center, and more than 20 other groups, filed an amicus brief in several cases opposing the Trump Administration’s Public Charge Rule. The amicus brief argues that the Public…
New Census data on poverty and health insurance reveal troubling signs for people with low incomes.
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