This week: Racial Equity in Child Care, Family Separation, CTC
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
January 27, 2022
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How Build Back Better Advances Racial Equity in Child Care and Early Education
One of the Build Back Better Act’s most significant effects would be in reshaping the child care and early education field through long-overdue changes that will begin to address racial inequities—both for families and providers—through alleviating many of the socioeconomic barriers that uphold those inequities.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Revoked. The CTC Shouldn’t Go Down this Path. [[link removed]]
The Biden Administration has officially ended so-called work requirements for Medicaid. Policymakers should dismiss any consideration of work requirements for the child tax credit (CTC) and other programs.
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Exhausted Parents Need the CTC’s Relief [[link removed]]
"I’m tired. I’m tired because as a person with direct experience of poverty working in the policy realm, it’s hard doing this work when you’re still living this work." Read this blog by a member of our Community Partnership Group.
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CLASP Makes Recommendations on Reunifying Families
CLASP, along with First Focus on Children, Children’s Defense Fund, The Children’s Partnership, and Save the Children, submitted a comment on January 24, 2022, in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s request for public input in supporting the work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families. The comment letter calls for an end to all ongoing enforcement actions at the border and the interior that continue to harm children and families.
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CLASP in the News
JANUARY 26, 2022 | THE IMPRINT
Reports: States Hoard Billions in Welfare Funds Despite Growing Need [[link removed]]
JANUARY 24, 2022 | CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
Families Need to File Tax Returns for Rest of 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) [[link removed]]
JANUARY 19, 2022 | K2 RADIO
Wyoming in Bottom 10 of States for Providing Certain Welfare Benefits [[link removed]]
JANUARY 10, 2022 | MOMS RISING
Breaking Through Podcast Episode: Hope in 2022! [[link removed]]
Recent Events
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On January 19, Nia West-Bey presented on a panel organized by MTV's mental health advisory network on the state of youth and young adult mental health.
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On January 14, Tiffany Ferrette and Alycia Hardy spoke on a panel entitled “Strategies for a More Equitable Child Care Agenda” at the National Women’s Law Center Annual Meeting . They discussed strategies for advancing equity for families, providers, and communities with COVID recovery and relief funding.
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On January 11, Tiffany Ferrette participated on the opening panel for the 2022 Policy Connect Annual Retreat entitled “Building & Sustaining Transformative Policies: Where We Are, Where We’re Going & How We Get There.”
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