This week: Recommendations for Strengthening the Reentry Employment Opportunities Program

RECENTLY FROM CLASP
August 11, 2022

Recommendations for Strengthening the Reentry Employment Opportunities Program

In this brief, CLASP and the National Reentry Workforce Collaborative (NRWC) offer a set of recommendations to strengthen and modernize the federal Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) Program to ensure that a greater number of people impacted by the criminal legal system have access to quality jobs through effective, equitable, and culturally responsive practices.

Our recommendations build on two recent proposals to codify the program and are grounded in the perspectives of current REO programs, partners, and intermediaries across the country.

Childhood hunger does lasting harm. This new bill can help end it.

Food insecurity has adverse, long-term effects on children, impacting them in adulthood. The improved Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill takes a critical step to creating a solid foundation that allows students to flourish and grow.

Liberation: Transforming the System for All Youth

The New Deal for Youth Changemakers’ policy platform is built on a framework of four tenets: abolition, decriminalization, reparations, and liberation. In this blog, the authors share their personal experiences of what liberation means to them, their community, and the efforts in a New Deal for Youth.

NEW: Child Care Assistance Spending and Participation in 2019

Though states can receive funding through the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, funding for child care programs has failed to meet families’ needs—leaving them unable to access affordable, high-quality child care.

This fact sheet analyzes national and state spending and participation data for CCDBG- and TANF-funded child care for FY 2019.

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