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Child Care and Early Education
CLASP’s child care and early education work focuses on promoting policies that support both child development and the needs of low-income working parents and on expanding the availability of resources for child care and early education initiatives. | 
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Child Support and Low-Income Fathers
CLASP advocates reorienting the child support program into an income support program, emphasizing the need to improve family resources by providing tailored services to both parents and integrating child support services into the welfare to work agenda. |
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Child Welfare
CLASP focuses on ways the child welfare and TANF fields can work collaboratively to help families and works to ensure a comprehensive range of services that low-income children and their parents need. |
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Childbearing and Pregnancy Prevention
CLASP focuses on reproductive health particularly as it relates to low-income families, on teen pregnancy prevention, and on issues that confront teen parents. |
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Civil Legal Assistance
CLASP seeks to ensure equal justice for all Americans by working to promote racial and social justice, by preserving and strengthening the Legal Services Corporation, and by stimulating innovation in the delivery of civil legal aid. |
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Couples and Marriage Policy
CLASP focuses on a "Marriage-Plus" perspective, which has two main goals centered on the well-being of children: (1) to help more children grow up with their two biological, married parents whose relationship is healthy; (2) when this isn’t possible, to help parents--whether unmarried, cohabiting, separated, divorced, or remarried--cooperate better in raising their children. |
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Global Social Policy
CLASP analyzes and promotes progressive social policies abroad and at home. Our work ranges from broad overviews of social reform—for example, the UK commitment to end child poverty—to in-depth reviews of specific policies, such as New Zealand’s work-life legislation. |
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No Child Left Behind
CLASP staff works on issues in the implementation and improvement of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that impact low-income families and their children. Our goal is to support state and local activities that expand high-quality services to children often left out of educational programs. |
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Opportunity at Work
Opportunity at Work |
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Postsecondary Education and Training
Job training and other postsecondary programs are critical for job advancement for low-wage workers. CLASP promotes innovation to create better pathways into college for low-income adults and improvements in financial aid and college support services to help them succeed in school. |
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Poverty and Opportunity
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Prisoner Re-Entry
As ex-offender parents struggle to make a fresh start, they encounter many legal and social barriers that make it very difficult for them to successfully care for their children, find work, get safe housing, go to school, and access public benefits. |
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State-by-State Policy Data
CLASP publications and resources, in several policy areas, that present data and/or analysis state by state. |
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Welfare and Work Supports
CLASP conducts policy analysis and provides technical assistance on the implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to state and federal officials and administrators, advocacy organizations, grassroots groups, and research entities. |
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Work-Life
CLASP studies and addresses the impact of family friendly policies, such as sick leave and parental leave, on both workers and businesses. While family friendly policies are important for all parents, for low-wage working parents fewer jobs provide flexibility and time off to meet the needs for family time and family caring. |
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Workforce Development and Transitional Jobs
CLASP examines federal and state policies that increase job advancement opportunities for low-wage workers, strengthen connections to work supports for which they may be eligible, and improve the quality of jobs. |
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Youth Policy
CLASP’s work in this area advances a cross-system, cross-funding stream approach to building the community infrastructure that connects disconnected youth to alternative education, training, career exposure, and labor market opportunities that prepare them for adult success. |
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