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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
JULY 2020

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Fact Sheets: Effective COVID Relief Depends on the Inclusion of Immigrants [[link removed]]
The COVID-19 legislation enacted to date excludes millions of immigrants and their families from health care and economic relief. These fact sheets provide data snapshots describing immigrants nationally and across select states, barriers they face to health care access, and how the Heroes Act would improve their health and safety.
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Medicaid Financing: Dangers of Block Grants and Per Capita Caps Summary and Full Report [[link removed]]
In 2017, Congress repeatedly rejected proposals to change Medicaid's financing to a block grant structure. Nonetheless, CMS released guidance in January 2020 to states encouraging them to use waiver authority to apply for per capita caps and eventually block grants. This updated brief draws lessons from the experiences under TANF and CCDBG to explain the harmful effects on Medicaid that could be expected from using a block grant or per capita cap funding structure.
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CLASP Comments on SNAP E&T NPRM [[link removed]]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed SNAP E&T regulation largely implements provisions that were included in the bipartisan 2018 Farm Bill. However, in light of the current health and economic crisis, we urge FNS to immediately issue guidance allowing states to begin implementing subsidized employment as part of their E&T programs as soon as the health crisis permits people to safely return to work.
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IWS Updates
Like many of you, we've spent a lot of time this month thinking about our part in the nation's long-overdue reckoning with its past and present systems of racism and white supremacy, and what the increased public awareness means for our efforts to fight poverty and improve the lives of people with low incomes. With Black and Latinx people dying from COVID-19 at significantly higher rates than white people, public health data is reflecting generations of racial inequities. Moving forward, policy solutions must address the systemic and historic discrimination that has long driven policymaking and implementation of public benefit programs.
Failure to do so will only deepen existing inequities. For several years, we've been working to more explicitly see and name the role of racism in limiting access to—and shaping the design of—key income and work support programs. We know that we still have more to do to ensure that our work consistently helps dismantle systemic racism and white supremacy.
We'd love to hear what you're thinking about these issues. Email us at [email protected] [[email protected]] , and we can set up a time to talk. On a different note, CLASP has moved offices. Our new mailing address is 1310 L St, NW, Suite 900, Washington DC xxxxxx. We're still working remotely, but are hopeful that we'll be able to enjoy the new space sometime later this year.

In the News
JUNE 19, 2020 | TIME
Segregation Has Gotten Worse, Not Better, and It's Fueling the Wealth Gap Between Black and White Americans [[link removed]]
JUNE 20, 2020 | DAZED
5 Dreamers on the Supreme Court’s Decision to Stop Donald Trump Ending DACA [[link removed]]

Key Blog Posts and Publications
JUNE 3, 2020 | ALYCIA HARDY
Child Care Coronavirus Recovery Conversations: Equitable Approaches to Elevating Parent Voices [[link removed]]
JUNE 23, 2020 | TANYA L. GOLDMAN
LGBTQ+ Victory takes Next Steps toward Civil Rights and Racial Justice [[link removed]]
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What We're Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What is Owed [[link removed]]
FOREIGN POLICY
America’s Social Contract Is Still Built on Racial Hostility [[link removed]]
MEDIUM
Centering Blackness: The Path to Economic Liberation for All [[link removed]]

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