This week: August 13 deadline to speak up for immigrants!
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August 7, 2025
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Raise Your Voice By 8/13 to Support Immigrant Families’ Access to Critical Programs
The Trump Administration is seeking to overturn longstanding guidance and prohibit immigrant families from enrolling in programs that support early learning, community and mental health, and addiction treatment. But you can speak up by August 13 to oppose this attack. CLASP and our partners have compiled resources and templates on Head Start [[link removed]] and behavioral health [[link removed]] to support individuals in sharing their experience/expertise and creating an administrative record opposing this change. And here’s a sign-on letter [[link removed]] for organizations to express their opposition. Please use these resources to submit your comments by August 13—and spread the word to others!
Tying Medicaid to Work Further Limits Who Policymakers Deem Worthy of Health Insurance and Undermines the Affordable Care Act
Suzanne Wikle’s blog focuses on how pending Medicaid rules and massive cuts to the program will cause people to lose their health insurance and undermine the ACA.
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July Marks a Call to Action for the Disability Community
On the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Ashley Burnside’s blog examines the importance of Disability Pride Month and the challenges the budget reconciliation law poses for the disability community.
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Black Social Mobility and Building Generational Wealth
Marquelle Ogletree’s blog offers solutions to close the racial wealth gap, after tracing their own family’s experience through the lens of federal programs that historically excluded Black people from building generational wealth.
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Millions of people rely on Social Security’s programs to help them afford essentials each month. If these benefits are delayed or cut, older Americans, along with children and adults who have disabilities, would face heightened poverty, housing insecurity, and economic strain. Read our new fact sheets to learn more:
* Threats to the Social Security Administration Could Unravel Our Entire Economy [[link removed]]
* Threats to Supplemental Security Income Could Unravel Our Entire Economy [[link removed]]
CLASP in the News
AUGUST 5, 2025 | SECOND WAVE MICHIGAN
Attacks on immigrant families and what that means for early education [[link removed]]
AUGUST 5, 2025 | ARIZONA REPUBLIC
New fees in One Big Beautiful Bill to have big impact on unaccompanied migrant minors [[link removed]]
JULY 22, 2025 | EDSURGE
Immigration Raids Are Preventing Students From Attending School [[link removed]]
JULY 20, 2025 | THE 74
Some States Are Seeking to Deregulate Child Care. Advocates Are Fighting Back [[link removed]]
Recent Events
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August 5: Wendy Cervantes was featured in the rebroadcast of an April webinar about the implications of accelerated deportations hosted by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and the Brazelton Touchpoint Center. In the rebroadcast, she provided an update about the latest developments since April. Watch the recording here [[link removed]] .
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July 24: Juan Carlos Gomez led a webinar for the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association on “The Nuts and Bolts of the Federal Budget.” View the recording here [[link removed]] .
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