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.”

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.

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.

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 with an episode featuring ND4Y Changemaker Joseph Yusuf, who shared the direct impact the expanded Child Tax Credit had on his family’s life.