This week: Paving a Pathway to Prosperity
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
December 15, 2022
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Paving a Pathway to Prosperity
Policymakers from all parties and backgrounds often share the goal of ensuring prosperity, good health, and overall wellbeing for all communities and people. Our country’s public benefits, tax, and health coverage programs are critical to achieving these goals. Yet, even with good intentions and promising first steps, many social protection programs need greater investments if we are to succeed in promoting and achieving economic security and opportunity for all.
In a new series of fact sheets, we examine the federal policies and programs enacted in 2020, 2021, and 2022 that swiftly and dramatically reduced poverty and hardship, narrowed racial disparities, and improved long-term outcomes for children and families. Of course, our nation’s work is far from over. To that end, we also lay out CLASP’s legislative priorities for the final weeks of this Congress in a new blog [[link removed]] .
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David Hansell Elected Chair of CLASP Board of Trustees [[link removed]]
After the unanimous election by CLASP’s board of trustees, board member David A. Hansell will assume the role of board chair in January. David, who’s one of the nation’s foremost experts on children and families, has held key federal, state, and local leadership roles.
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As Coffee Shops Unionize, Workers Need Greater Federal Support [[link removed]]
CLASP Policy Analyst Nat Baldino: “My experience organizing cafes demonstrated that coffee organizing isn’t a fad. And it definitely isn’t incidental. Rather, it is the natural outcome of the lean production business model that we’ve seen across industries.”
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A 2022 Youth Data Portrait
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Even before the pandemic began in 2020, young people were being ignored and overlooked in public policymaking. To capture that, we analyzed data related to Economic Justice, Healing and Wellbeing, and Safe Communities for youth and young adults. Nearly three years later, CLASP and A New Deal for Youth’s latest data portrait show that the work is still not done.
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Did You Know? Racism, historical trauma, and long-lasting inequities such as disproportionate exposure to poverty have contributed to higher suicide rates among non-Hispanic AI/AN youth and other groups who have been marginalized. [[link removed]]
The 2021 Child Tax Credit expansions demonstrated that monthly cash payments provided with little administrative burden effectively reduce child poverty and food insecurity. Congress allowed these payments to lapse at the end of 2021 but can restore them now. Federal policymakers shouldn’t provide corporations with tax relief unless they help families.
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CLASP in the News
DECEMBER 7, 2022 | THE RICK SMITH SHOW
The Rick Smith Show, Dec. 7 [[link removed]]
DECEMBER 7, 2022 | TOMPKINS WEEKLY
Families call for return of Expanded Child Tax Credit [[link removed]]
Recent Events
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On December 14, Parker Gilkesson and members of CLASP’s Community Partnership Group presented “ Redesigning SNAP: An Anti-Racist Vision for SNAP: Ensuring Food Justice for All ” at a conference hosted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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Earlier this fall, A New Deal for Youth hosted a Week of Action in D.C. Check out this new video [[link removed]] that highlights the week’s successes!
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