This week: Title 42 Termination
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
April 7, 2022
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Title 42 Termination: A Critical Development for Children, Families
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcement to terminate Title 42, effective May 23, 2022, is the right decision. However, it’s a long-overdue development, because any day the policy remains in place is a day too long. Title 42 is a Trump-era anti-child and anti-family policy invoked in response to the COVID pandemic that has put children’s lives in danger and undermined the ability of families to stay together. It’s also a racist policy that has disproportionately put brown and Black children and families in harm’s way. Moving forward, the Biden-Harris Administration must uphold the best interests of children by working with communities that stand ready to welcome and support children and families seeking safety.
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Women’s History Month: Uplifting My Mom’s Immigration Story [[link removed]]
"Rarely do we get to hear from Vietnamese women, like my mother, who lived through the war, resettling in the United States years after it ended." CLASP Senior Policy Analyst Kathy Tran shares her mother's story in a blog that rounded out our observation of Women’s History Month in March.
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Supporting Infants and Toddlers Through Federal Relief and the American Rescue Plan [[link removed]]
Two years into the pandemic and one year after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), this brief examines how decision makers implementing ARPA have used COVID relief funding and policy opportunities to lay the groundwork for longer-term, transformative change by equitably supporting infants, toddlers, and their families in a range of ways.
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Parker Gilkesson Testifies Before House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations
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Parker Gilkesson spoke before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations last week in a hearing focused on improper payments in government programs. Parker was invited to testify, in part, because of her recent body of work [[link removed]] that examines the damage of criminalizing hunger through charging SNAP recipients with Intentional Program Violations. In her testimony, Parker pointed out that “Fraud in SNAP is quite rare, contrary to media portrayals,” making policymakers’ obsession with it particularly troubling.
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Black Women Best Legislative Agenda Report
Liberation in a Generation and the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls collaborated with over 40 Black women contributors - including CLASP's Dr. Nia West-Bey and Parker Gilkesson - to develop An Economy for All: Building a Black Women Best Legislative Agenda [[link removed]] . The report, inspired by the Black Women Best framework, outlines a clear policy agenda to address inequities that have disproportionately burdened Black women and girls — delivering an inclusive economy for everyone in the process.
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CLASP in the News
APRIL 7, 2022 | TEEN VOGUE
What Is Retaliation in the Workplace? Here Are Your Rights and What to Know [[link removed]]
MARCH 31, 2022 | US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
The States with the Most and Least Affordable Child Care [[link removed]]
MARCH 31, 2022 | WASHINGTON EXAMINER
A messy patchwork of state systems is causing massive improper Medicaid payment rates [[link removed]]
MARCH 30, 2022 | MS. MAGAZINE
Congress, Bring Down Childcare Costs for Families [[link removed]]
MARCH 25, 2022 | AMERICAN KAHANI
Social and Economic Policy Expert Indivar Dutta-Gupta Named Executive Director of Center for Law and Social Policy [[link removed]]
Upcoming Events
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On April 11-13, Whitney Bunts, Dr. Nia West-Bey, and our New Deal for Youth Changemaker Kadesha Mitchell will present posters at NatCon [[link removed]] (the National Council on Mental Well-Being) about the New Deal for Youth vision for healing and well-being and youth mobile response.
Recent Events
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Today, Dr. Nia West-Bey spoke at a panel event called “ Connecting Racial Equity to Public Policy: Why Philanthropy’s Voice is Crucial .” This event is organized by the United Philanthropy Forum as part of the Foundations on the Hill Conference.
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On April 6, Dr. Nia West-Bey presented about mental health in the president’s budget and what's next for human needs programs at a webinar titled “ Unfinished Business: The FY23 Biden Budget .” The event was co-sponsored by the Coalition on Human Needs and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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On April 6, the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign that CLASP co-leads hosted a webinar to review strategy and share materials from its upcoming response to the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed public charge rule.
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On April 6, Nat Baldino spoke at a panel hosted by Georgetown Law School’s Workers Rights Institute titled “ Union Strong Coffee: Organizing at Starbucks ” to discuss the movement to organize Starbucks workers and what it means for workers across the country.
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