CLASP Work Supports Newsletter - February 2013
CLASP is inaugurating this Work Supports e-newsletter to highlight the efforts of CLASP and our colleague organizations to help ensure low-income families get the support they need to stay employed and...
View ArticleCLASP Work Supports Newsletter - March 2013
The Work Supports Newsletter is a monthly update that summarizes CLASP's work on safety net programs that include cash assistance (TANF), nutrition supports (SNAP), refundable tax credits, health...
View ArticleInsights from the Ideas for Action Awards: Financial Asset Building
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity hosted a national audio conference, in partnership with the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, the Northwest Area Foundation and the...
View ArticleInsights from the Ideas for Action Awards: Career Pathways out of Poverty
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, the Northwest Area Foundation, and the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public...
View ArticleCLASP Work Supports Newsletter - April 2013
The Work Supports Newsletter is a monthly update that summarizes CLASP's work on safety net programs that include cash assistance (TANF), nutrition supports (SNAP), refundable tax credits, health...
View ArticleUnwed Dads in the Inner City: What's Changed and Why it Matters
Do urban poor dads live up to their image as "dead-beats" or do they really care about their kids? Often vilified across the political spectrum, unwed fathers in the inner city are the subject of a...
View ArticleCLASP Work Supports Newsletter - May 2013
The Work Supports Newsletter is a monthly update that summarizes CLASP's work on safety net programs that include cash assistance (TANF), nutrition supports (SNAP), refundable tax credits, health...
View ArticleWhere You Live Matters: Addressing Concentrated Poverty Neighborhoods
Spotlight, along with PRRAC, the Furman Center, and the Urban Institute hosted a national audio conference featuring a discussion with Patrick Sharkey about new findings on concentrated poverty and...
View ArticlePoverty Trends: Declining Wages Require Growing Income Supports
Conversations about the War on Poverty often begin with this dispiriting fact: the official U.S. poverty rate is stuck at 15 percent, essentially where it was 50 years ago when the War on Poverty...
View ArticleCLASP Work Supports Newsletter - July 2013
The Work Supports Newsletter is a monthly update that summarizes CLASP's work on safety net programs that include cash assistance (TANF), nutrition supports (SNAP), refundable tax credits, health...
View ArticleNew Perspectives on Transforming States' Health and Human Services: Practical...
CLASP is pleased to be part of the Work Support Strategies Initiative (WSS), a multi-state effort to design and test cutting-edge improvements in policy, service delivery, and technology to help...
View ArticleChild Poverty in the U.S.: What New Census Data Tell Us About Our Youngest...
This fact sheet examines children and poverty in the U.S. in response to the 2012 poverty data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
View ArticleEconomic Security for Extremely Vulnerable Families: Themes and Options for...
This report explores workforce and asset development strategies for improving the economic security of extremely vulnerable families, those facing major challenges beyond poverty. Evidence drawn from...
View ArticleEmerging Opportunities for Addressing Maternal Depression under Medicaid
This brief highlights opportunities and challenges for Medicaid programs in providing access to services for depressed mothers. Low income mothers have high rates of untreated depression, posing...
View ArticlePoverty in America: How We Can Help Families
For every distressing national poverty statistic, the numbers for children are worse. While one-sixth of all Americans live in poverty and one-third live in "near poverty," with incomes below twice the...
View ArticleDisconnected Mothers and the Well-Being of Children: A Research Report
Considerable research attention has been devoted to low-income mothers disconnected from both work and welfare. This body of work has rarely highlighted disconnected mothers' roles as parents and has...
View ArticleRecommendations to the Congressional Budget Conference Committee
CLASP offers recommendations to the Congressional Budget Conference Committee, including ending sequestration and defending core programs for low-income people.
View ArticleCivil Legal Aid in the United States: An Update for 2013
The United States is facing a crisis of funding at both the federal and state levels. As a result of substantial reductions in domestic discretionary spending because of the Budget Control Act of 2011...
View ArticleSecuring Equal Justice for All: A Brief History of Civil Legal Assistance in...
Civil legal assistance helps low-income people navigate various civil matters like housing evictions, home foreclosures, predatory lending, child support, and domestic violence. It also helps people...
View ArticleBudget Deal Would Halt Some Sequester Woes, Provide Fiscal Stability
As pundits dissect the proposed budget deal hammered out by the committee co-chaired by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), CLASP is examining the proposal with a focus on...
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