Testimony to U.S. House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and...
CLASP Executive Director Olivia Golden's testified before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education to advocate for the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development...
View ArticleConfronting the Child Care Eligibility Maze: Simplifying and Aligning with...
This report helps states confront burdensome administrative processes that make it difficult for low-income families to get and keep child care benefits, and the cumulative challenges clients face in...
View ArticleCLASP Comments on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
CLASP offered comments to the Administration for Children and Families on the upcoming Early Head Start-Child Care partnerships funding opportunity.
View ArticleState Child Care Subsidy Policies that Support Early Head Start-Child Care...
State Child Care Subsidy Policies that Support Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships: A Tool for States provides a menu of state child care assistance policies that states could consider to improve...
View ArticleA New Vision for Child Care
This brief is based on Confronting the Child Care Eligibility Maze: Simplifying Child Care and Aligning with Other Work Supports, an in-depth guide to the policies and practices that allow states to...
View ArticleChild Care and Development Block Grant Participation in 2012
Based on preliminary state-reported data from the federal Office of Child Care, this fact sheet provides a snapshot of CCDBG program participation in 2012, noting the great variability in child care...
View ArticleScrambling for Stability: The Challenges of Job Schedule Volatility and Child...
CLASP brief explores the relationship between job scheduling and child care.
View ArticleChild Care Assistance: Helping Parents Work and Children Succeed
Quality child care enables parents to work or go to school while also providing young children with the early childhood education experiences needed for healthy development. The Child Care and...
View ArticleChild Care and Development Block Grant Participation at a 15-Year Low
Participation in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) has fallen for the third consecutive year to a 15-year low. Fewer children were served in 2013 than in 1998.
View ArticleFederal Legislation to Improve Job Schedules and Child Care Access for...
This fact sheet highlights key provisions that would improve working parents’ access to quality child care.
View ArticleComments on the FY 2016-2018 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)...
CLASP and NWLC general comments and recommendations for the FY 2016-2018 Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) preprint.
View ArticleAn Introduction to CCDBG Reauthorization
CCDBG reauthorization establishes many new requirements for states, providing an opportunity to envision a new system which improves the quality of care, protects the health and safety of children,...
View ArticleChild Care Assistance in 2013
This brief provides analysis of national trends for spending and participation in CCDBG- and TANF-funded child care in federal fiscal year 2013, based on the most recent state data available from the...
View ArticleChild Care Assistance: A Vital Support for Working Families
This fact sheet provides an overview of the research showing why child care assistance is so important to low-income, vulnerable families.
View ArticleImplementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A...
This guide, written jointly by CLASP and NWLC, is designed to help policymakers and advocates gain a better understanding of what is entailed in fully implementing the law.
View ArticleImplementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization:...
CLASP and NWLC's Implementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A Guide for States provides a comprehensive review of the implementation issues that states will face around...
View ArticleTANF Spending on Child Care Up Slightly in 2014
According to 2014 data on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, states spent slightly more TANF funds on child care assistance than they did the previous year.
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