CLASP

This document by Lauren Walizer discusses a range of policy and practice options that states can undertake to increase college student access to public benefits.

This brief by Lauren Walizer discusses what CLASP has learned from working with states to enact such changes and develop a comprehensive and collaborative strategy to dedicate themselves to this work long-term.

This report explains how students with low incomes can access public benefits and how states can better support them.

Child Care and Early Education Equity: A State Action Agenda outlines the important role state policymakers can play to ensure equity in their states’ early education efforts. CLASP’s action agenda describes key state early education programs, significant challenges such as racial disparities and underinvestment, and…

Since 2011-2012, unmet financial need for college students has increased 23 percent. Nearly three in four students now experience it.

This paper lays out an action framework that the higher education leaders, nonprofit advocates, state policymakers, and postsecondary students we gathered during an April 2018 roundtable agree are needed to support the educational success of low-income working students, particularly students of color. It also examines…

This brief describes how current proposals to restrict health care access threaten student coverage.

CLASP paper on redesigning state financial aid to better serve nontraditional adult students

Benefits Access for College Completion: Lessons Learned from a Community College Initiative to Help Low-Income Students

This toolkit is designed to help states develop, implement, and fund robust career pathways programs that lead to better jobs for low-skilled workers.