This new fact sheet shows how Build Back Better investments in care—including child care and pre-k, the child tax credit, and paid family and medical leave—will help children and families. 
This week: Build Back Better Advances Equity for Children and Families
 

RECENTLY FROM CLASP
October 21, 2021

 

Build Back Better Advances Equity for Children and Families

The Build Back Better Act includes a comprehensive set of policies that will advance racial equity and invest in our nation’s children, families, and economy. This fact sheet shows how Build Back Better investments in care—including child care and pre-k, the child tax credit, and paid family and medical leave—will help children and families.

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Embracing An End to Worksite Raids, We Call for Healing and Centering Children’s Wellbeing

In an important memo, the Department of Homeland Security upended a hallmark of the Trump and Bush administrations’ enforcement strategies. Wendy Cervantes reflects on the memo, drawing from CLASP’s experiences documenting how children were affected in communities where the Trump Administration conducted massive worksite raids.
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Building Back Better Requires Solutions Rooted in Economic Justice for Black Workers

For too long, policies that govern employment programs have been designed in race-neutral ways that fail to account for and address the specific needs of Black communities who have been systematically excluded from meaningful jobs paying family-supporting wages.

 

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CLASP in the News

 

OCTOBER 21, 2021 | CNBC

Expanded child tax credit may last for 1 more year instead of 5 as Democrats cut economic plan

OCTOBER 21, 2021 | CNN

Joe Manchin wants to add a work requirement to the child tax credit. Here's what that would do.

OCTOBER 18, 2021 | BE LATINA

New Analysis Shows Investment in Childcare Would Help Bring Latinas Out of Poverty

OCTOBER 10, 2021 | C-SPAN WASHINGTON JOURNAL

Olivia Golden on C-SPAN to Discuss Social Safety Net Programs

OCTOBER 9, 2021 | NEW YORK TIMES

When Child Care Costs Twice as Much as the Mortgage


 

Recent Events

 

CLASP cosponsored a Care Can’t Wait event today on Capitol Hill that called attention to the importance of all the care provisions in the Build Back Better Act.

 

 

Upcoming Events

 

On October 26, Alycia Hardy and Alyssa Fortner will present at the First Children's Finance's 2021 ECE Business Collaboratory Convening. Their session is titled “Centering Equity in Implementation: A Deep Dive on Data and Community Engagement.”

 

On October 27, Nia West-Bey will moderate a panel on behalf of Grantmakers for Thriving Youth. The session, titled “Mental Health, Wellbeing and Healing: What Young People Say They Need Now,” will feature expert panelists including two New Deal for Youth Changemakers. Register here.

 

On November 4, Christine Johnson-Staub will present at CHILDREN AT RISK’s "Equity Starts Early." She will speak on the roots and history of racism in child care policies and how they are represented in current policy. Register here.

 

 
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