CLASP policy analyst submitted written testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia on using Mayor’s budget to fund DC Paid Family Leave and the new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. >> Read the full comments here
This statement can be attributed to Indivar Dutta-Gupta, President and Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, D.C., March 9, 2022—President Biden released his FY 2024 budget today, outlining his priorities for federal investments in the health, wellbeing, and economic security…
Here’s a look back at seven of the top tweets last night during the State of the Union that highlighted the need to enact the economic, social, and racial justice policies that are critical to people with low incomes, communities of color, and immigrant families…
Providing Income to Unemployed Workers Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance—enacted by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act—helped people unable to work due to the pandemic. This included self-employed workers, those seeking part-time employment, or people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for regular unemployment benefits.…
Expanding the Child Tax Credit In 2021, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) lifted 1 million children under 6 and nearly 2 million children between 6 and 17 out of poverty, when using the Supplemental Poverty Measure. The expanded CTC, which disproportionately benefitted Black and Hispanic…
Thanks to powerful federal investments in programs that support people seeking economic security, the child poverty rate in 2021 as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) dropped by nearly half, from 9.7 percent in 2020 to 5.2 percent in 2021, the lowest level measured.
Indivar Dutta-Gupta appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, where he discussed the Biden administration’s economic policies, their impact on Americans with low incomes, and what additional policies are needed to support them.