This week: The CTC in 2022; Honoring Dr. King

RECENTLY FROM CLASP
January 14, 2022

What Families Need to Know about the CTC in 2022

The expanded Child Tax Credit has been a highly effective policy tool to fight child poverty. Due to Congressional inaction, however, the monthly payments have ceased for 2022—and the January payment would have arrived today. But families are still eligible to receive the remaining balance of their 2021 CTC payment. Learn more about how families can claim this remaining balance by filing their 2021 tax returns as early as January 24.

Subsidized Employment: A Strategy to Address Equity and Inclusion in SNAP E&T Programs

States have a new opportunity to use federal funding through the SNAP Employment and Training Program to offer paid work-based learning activities to workers and jobseekers who have been overlooked for far too long and often face compounded economic marginalization.

Changemakers Talk Mental Health

New Deal for Youth Changemakers recently appeared on the Into the Fold podcast to address the connection between healing and justice as it relates to youth mental health and wellbeing. They discussed the power and agency of young people, rather than their vulnerability.

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Honoring Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. made remarkable progress in his short life to advance racial, social, and economic justice. As we enter the MLK, Jr. holiday weekend, CLASP would like to remember Dr. King by sharing several pieces that speak to the importance of his life’s work: