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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
JUNE 2020

Subsidized Employment Must Be a Part of the Recovery

Unemployment has spiked to over 14 percent for March 2020, with most observers predicting a historic high of 20 percent. Without targeted job creation in communities hardest hit, today's crisis will have a lasting negative impact on workers of color and others.

Five Ways to Help Ensure Pandemic-EBT Reaches Immigrant Families

The recently created Pandemic EBT helps families put food on the table for students. But for many immigrant families who’ve been excluded from unemployment assistance and stimulus checks, states must intentionally target their P-EBT outreach to immigrant families to have successful outcomes.

COVID-19 Shines a Light on Multidimensional Poverty

During COVID-19, people are suddenly confronting zero-hour work weeks, unemployment, food shortages, housing fears, and lack of access to health care. This is what people in poverty have been experiencing for years. It’s feared that the people whose lives were already hard, will be the ones to fare the worst in this pandemic.

IWS Updates

It's been a challenging month, with racist killings dominating the headlines, the death toll from COVID-19 climbing past 100,000 in the U.S. and rates of hunger among children spiking far beyond the levels seen in the Great Recession. CLASP staff continue to work from home, and we're all spending long hours on video conferences, as we know many of you are. We're advocating for more and faster federal relief to meet the urgent needs of communities, including those left out of the previous rounds of economic support. We're also working with our state and local partners to share best practices to ensure people can actually access available benefits, even though both human services agencies and nonprofits are closed for in-person visits. While we're grounded from travel, we'd still love to hear what you're seeing in your communities and how we can help. Email us at [email protected].