This week: Achieving Health Equity, CCDF Rule
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
May 2, 2024
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High Quality Race & Ethnicity Data Are Essential For Achieving Health Equity
Our new brief, published in collaboration with the Data Equity Coalition, focuses on race and ethnicity data standards, which contribute to a larger intersectional vision of data equity. This is crucial because, as CLASP’s President and Executive Director Indivar Dutta-Gupta says, “[P]olicymakers need robust data to address economic insecurity and advance health equity … data far too often neglects the very communities with the most distinct needs and who are ill-served by our current systems.”
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The Child Care and Development Fund 2024 Rule: Detailed Summary and State Examples
This brief summarizes the changes required or suggested in the final Child Care and Development Fund rule, which took effect on April 29, and outlines additional suggestions for states to consider. We provide examples from states that have already implemented key requirements as well as other information to support state efforts.
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Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge to a local ordinance that punishes people for sleeping and camping outdoors. In response, CLASP policy analyst Jesse Fairbanks authored this op-ed in The Progressive that connects the SCOTUS case to growing efforts to compel people experiencing mental health crises in public into treatment. Both criminalization and forced treatment are short-sighted solutions to homelessness.
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ND4Y Changemaker Joseph Yusuf Discusses the Need for the Child Tax Credit
A New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) premiered the newest season of the Inspiration for You(th) podcast [[link removed]?] with an episode featuring ND4Y Changemaker Joseph Yusuf, who shared the direct impact the expanded Child Tax Credit had on his family’s life.
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CLASP in the News
MAY 1, 2024 | AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW
Child labor law violations are at their highest in decades. [[link removed]]
APRIL 24, 2024 | IDEASTREAM PUBLIC MEDIA
A new book shares the experiences of those deported, after decades of living in Ohio [[link removed]]
Upcoming Events
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May 8: India Heckstall and Christian Collins will present at the National Student Parent Symposium [[link removed]] in Columbus, OH.
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May 16: Wendy Cervantes will be part of a Society for Research on Child Development plenary panel discussion [[link removed]] in Panama City, Panama. The title of the panel is “Refugee and Migration Policy: A Session with Policymakers.”
Recent Events
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April 30: CLASP’s Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Alyssa Fortner spoke at the “Putting the Pieces Together for Families with Young Children” webinar hosted by the BUILD Initiative. They interviewed parents, advocates, and administrators from California, Washington, and Washington D.C. who offered insight into what it takes to build an aligned system of supports for families.
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April 25: Rricha deCant, Wendy Cervantes, Suma Setty, Lorena Roque, and Juan Carlos Gomez presented appropriations priorities to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus staff.
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