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EDUCATION, LABOR, AND WORKER JUSTICE
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Economic Recovery Must Include Job-Protected Paid Family and Medical Leave [[link removed]]
As Congress looks toward economic recovery legislation, policymakers must include inclusive and comprehensive national paid family and medical leave. Worker protections like job protection, funded education and outreach, inclusive family definitions, and progressive wage replacement, are core to paid leave to ensure accessibility for workers who need them most.
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Paid Family and Medical Leave and Paid Sick Leave Provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act [[link removed]]
The recently passed American Rescue Plan (ARP) extended and expanded tax credits to employers who choose to provide paid leave.
This fact sheet includes what workers need to know and what they can do to encourage their employer to utilize the emergency leave credits and protect their employees.
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Lessons Learned from Prison Education Interruption during Pandemic [[link removed]]
The COVID 19 pandemic has raged through United States correctional facilities with little regard to the health of the incarcerated—also affecting access to postsecondary education and adult education in correctional facilities. As a result, prison education programs—including postsecondary programs—faced technological and bureaucratic challenges to continuing their instruction.
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Securing an Equitable Recovery [[link removed]]
A robust, equitable, inclusive economic recovery must include investment in good jobs for all, the care economy, income supports, and mental health along with a pathway to citizenship for immigrant workers. The recovery must also center those who have historically been excluded from public investment.
We Must Move Beyond the Status Quo and Close the Gender Pay Gap [[link removed]]
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Asha Banerjee and Rocio Perez authored a blog urging policymakers to take concrete steps toward fixing gender disparities as the economy inches toward a more inclusive economic recovery.
Connecting Community College Students to SNAP [[link removed]]
This policy report highlights state options to expand SNAP access to students with low incomes—beyond the temporary student provisions in the recent COVID-19 relief bill—and minimize unfair and unrealistic work.
COVID-19 Death Rate in Prisons and the General Population [[link removed]]
This data visualization presents the death rate from COVID-19 in every state for those who are incarcerated compared to that of the general population, per 100,000.
CLASP in the Media
MAY 2021 | THE INTERSECTION MAGAZINE
The Pandemic Has Gutted Low-Income jobs. Automation is speeding up. How Do We Move Forward? [[link removed]]
APRIL 2021 | THE BAKER ORANGE
COVID-19 relief package includes SNAP benefits for more college students [[link removed]]
MARCH 2021 | THE ADVOCATE
Hit hard by pandemic, Louisiana daycares in line for an 'unprecedented' $773M in COVID aid [[link removed]]
MARCH 2021 | DETROIT FREE PRESS
COVID-19 highlights need to restore paid sick leave supported by Michigan voters [[link removed]]
MARCH 2021 | HINDUSTAN TIMES
Joe Biden appoints two more Indian-Americans to key administration position [[link removed]]
MARCH 2021 | NBC PHILADELPHIA
House Raises Child Tax Credit to $3,000, But Only for a Year [[link removed]]
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