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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
SEPTEMBER 2019

Ending SNAP BBCE, Continuing a Ruthless American Tradition of Sabotaging Communities of Color
The Trump Administration recently proposed stripping SNAP benefits from 3.1 million individuals. This would further exacerbate the country's racial wealth gap and seriously harm people of color-continuing a ruthless tradition of preventing people of color from achieving economic mobility. READ MORE [ [link removed] ]

SNAP Recipient to Trump Administration: I am not a fraud. When President Trump suggests that I, among 3 million other SNAP recipients, am fraudulently accessing benefits without need, I am compelled to push back. We are the real people who would be harmed by the administration's "broad-based categorical eligibility" proposal ... I share my story because nobody else can tell it for me. Read More [ [link removed] ]

Children and Families in Trouble: Census Data Show Declining Health Coverage and Enduring Poverty Nearly a decade since the Great Recession, the Census Bureau's 2018 poverty and health insurance reports show signs of trouble for people with low incomes. Most alarming, the rate of those with health insurance declined for the first time since 2009-reversing the trend of historic gains in coverage since passage of the Affordable Care Act. Read More [ [link removed] ]

In the News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 | THE 74
Back to School but Nothing's Normal. Schools Mobilize to Help Children of Immigrants After Traumatic Summer [ [link removed] ]

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 | NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY CENTER
Janresseger: New Reports Confirm Persistent Child Poverty While Policymakers Blame Educators and Fail to Address Core Problem [ [link removed] ]

Key Blog Posts and Publications

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 | REBECCA ULLRICH The Final Public Charge Rule and Young Children: Q&A [ [link removed] ] The Trump Administration recently published a final "public charge" rule. The final rule could harm the health and wellbeing of millions of people and is of great concern for young children's development and the early childhood field.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 | PARKER GILKESSON, MADISON ALLEN, ELIZABETH LOWER-BASCH, RENATO ROCHA, DARREL THOMPSON, AND SUZANNE WIKLE CLASP Comments on BBCE Elimination Proposal [ [link removed] ] CLASP prepared comments against the proposal to eliminate broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) for SNAP, emphasizing the need for flexibility in food assistance receipt to bolster the financial condition of those in most need.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 | NIA WEST-BEY
Looking at Life Different: Equitable Mental Health Support for Young Adult Parents [ [link removed] ] This brief on mental health and young adults explains how we can best help young parents by recognizing parenthood as a valued, central identity that can spur growth and development in other key areas.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 | CLASP
SNAP Student Loan Guidance Memo [ [link removed] ] Today, more students work, have family obligations, attend classes part-time, and experience alarming rates of food insecurity. Public benefits programs, like SNAP, can support students' basic needs, especially since food insecurity is one of the greatest threats to students' health, wellbeing, and academic success.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 | PRONITA GUPTA & TANYA L. GOLDMAN
Low Job Quality Leaves Workers and Our Economy More Vulnerable to the Next Recession [ [link removed] ] As the specter of a recession grows, lessons from the Great Recession demonstrate that poor-quality jobs can further entrench poverty for low-wage workers, especially workers of color. This brief examines the last recession's impact on workers in low-wage jobs and makes the case for improving job quality for workers by enacting critical new labor standards.

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Join the celebration of CLASP's 50th anniversary!
Since 1969, CLASP has been in the vanguard of social policy change. Now, we're laying a bold vision for the next 50 years while celebrating what we've achieved. [ [link removed] ] As we push forward into our next half-century, CLASP will fight systemic racism, promote health and economic security for people with low incomes, and implement a vision of America where everyone has opportunity. Read more here [ [link removed] ] and celebrate with us!

Job opening - Director of Racial Equity
CLASP is seeking a director of racial equity [ [link removed] ] to help us take the next step in our racial equity journey. Following several years of work by a cross-cutting team, CLASP is ready to take a major step by recruiting a senior leader devoted full time to accelerating the pace of change and strengthening our racial equity work. We seek an innovative, deeply knowledgeable leader who can build on and leverage the extensive engagement we've seen from staff and board members while creating an even more powerful path toward the future. Please find the job description here [ [link removed] ], and feel free to share widely with your networks.

What We're Reading

THE HILL
Trump's Food Stamp Rule Change Will Hurt 19 Million Households [ [link removed] ]

THE WASHINGTON POST
Trump's New Rule to Punish Immigrants Just Shows How Bad American Jobs Are [ [link removed] ]

CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES
Programs Targeted for Cuts Keep Millions from Poverty, New Census Data Show [ [link removed] ]

THE WASHINGTON POST
Tennessee Becomes First State with a Plan to Turn Medicaid Into a Block Grant [ [link removed] ]

KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Recent Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment Declines and Barriers to Maintaining Coverage [ [link removed] ]

URBAN INSTITUTE
Welfare Rules Databook: State TANF Policies as of July 2018 [ [link removed] ]

URBAN INSTITUTE
Bold, Equitable Policy Solutions Are Needed to Close the Racial and Gender Wealth Gaps [ [link removed] ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started - In the United States, Racial Health Disparities Have Been as Foundational as Democracy Itself. [ [link removed] ]


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