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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
JULY 2022
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Meet the Community Partnership Group (CPG)!
Since early 2020, the IWS team has been building our relationship with the Community Partnership Group (CPG). The CPG is a diverse collective of activists from across the U.S. who partner with nonprofits, administering agencies, and policymakers to ensure that their work is grounded in the expertise of people directly impacted by poverty and/or anti-poverty policies. Each CPG member developed their expertise through direct experience with public benefits programs—whether through participation or discriminatory exclusion—and their ongoing anti-poverty advocacy. The CPG rejects systems rooted in oppression, classism, and white supremacy, instead centering equity through collectivism and co-creation. They believe that achieving transformational, anti-racist policy change is only possible when impacted people occupy positions of leadership and share systemic power. Check out their webpage [[link removed]] and Twitter feed [[link removed]]!

EITC for Childless Workers: What’s at Stake for Young Workers (updated) [link removed]
Before Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan Act, young workers under the age of 25 without children in the household were not qualified to receive the EITC. The 2021 expansion provided income support to over 17 million people who work for low pay. Making the EITC improvements permanent and inclusive of college students with financial needs would support the financial wellbeing of young adults and other workers without dependent children. As Congress considers future budget reconciliation legislation, policymakers must pay attention to the needs of those who have been disadvantaged and excluded from tax policies.

IWS Update
This update comes at the heels of several U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have disproportionate consequences for people with low incomes. Because of its central role in allowing women and birthing people control over their own lives, reproductive justice is essential for economic justice. By overturning the long-standing constitutional right to abortion care, which has been settled case law for the past 50 years, the decision in Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will allow states across the country to ban abortions. The state abortion bans already in place and those sure to follow will most harm people with the least resources, undermining their freedom and intensifying existing inequities.

Given Justice Thomas’s explicit mention of contraceptives and gay marriage in the majority opinion, our team is following the guidance of partners who understand how central bodily autonomy is to the fight for reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation. You can read CLASP’s official statement here [[link removed]].

In addition to Dobbs, the Court made worrisome rulings in several other cases:
- West Virginia v. EPA - The court ruled that Congress did not grant the EPA authority to regulate emissions from existing plants based on generation shifting mechanisms, thereby invalidating the Clean Power Plan. The EPA may continue to regulate emissions at existing plants through emissions reduction technologies. In the ruling, the court did not directly reject "Chevron deference," which is the general principle that courts can't substitute their own interpretation of a law for a reasonable agency interpretation, but did open the door for more challenges to regulation across a range of policy areas.
- Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta – The court’s decision expands state governments’ authority to prosecute certain cases on tribal lands, undermining tribal sovereignty.
- Vega v. Tekoh – The court’s decision takes away people’s ability to sue a police officer who fails to issue a Miranda warning before they are taken into custody and interrogated, jeopardizing people’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This decision disproportionately harms young people and people with disabilities who may be less aware of their rights and more likely to self-incriminate after taken into custody.
- Shoop v. Twyford – The court decided to deny people who are incarcerated the right to request to be transported outside the prison to develop new evidence that might aid them in proving their entitlement to federal habeas relief.
- Kennedy v. Bremerton School District - The court ruled that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games. Less than a week ago, the court also ruled that Maine could not exclude religious schools from a state tuition program.

Amidst all these dangerous rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court did affirm in Biden v. Texas that the Biden Administration can end the ill-advised Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program (formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols). This decision, which does not automatically end the failed program, paves the way for the Biden Administration to uphold the right of asylum seekers to seek safe haven at our border—and in doing so, allows the United States to once again welcome people with dignity and due process rather than cruelty and confinement. You can read CLASP’s full statement on this ruling here [[link removed]]. The court also dismissed Arizona and other states’ request to defend the Trump-era public charge rule, saying that the court should not have accepted the case.

Key Blog Posts and Publications
June 29, 2022 | Everywhere is War: Five Social Justice Warriors You Should Know for Caribbean Heritage Month by Nia West-Bey [[link removed]]

June 29, 2022 | Immigrant Workers Supplying our Food Chain Face Climate Threats, Unmet Needs by Juan Gomez, Christian Collins, and J Geiman [[link removed]]

June 25, 2022 | Safer Communities Act May Improve Mental Health for Some, But More Support Needed for Black and Brown Youth by Indivar Dutta-Gupta [[link removed]]

June 22, 2022 | As Pell Grants Turn 50, It’s Time for Change by J Geiman [[link removed]]

June 17, 2022 | What Juneteenth Means to Me by Stephanie Tellis [[link removed]]

June 15, 2022 | Immigrant access to education strengthens America. Policymakers must protect it. by Suma Setty [[link removed]]


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