The White House and the House of Representatives are in a standoff as they debate how to combat the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc on American society. The House wants a blanket waiver for all work requirements for SNAP benefits (food stamps), recognizing that we need to discourage sick Americans from feeling like they must go to work,
As I assumed the job of CSSP President, I have reflected on our history and our future and begun taking steps to ensure that we preserve the best of CSSP while making changes to make our work even more effective.
CSSP Senior Policy Analyst Elisa Minoff discusses her latest report, “The Racist Roots of Work Requirements, on WURD Radio with Reality Check host Charles Ellison.
getREAL brought child welfare leaders, administrators, researchers, and advocates together to address challenges and opportunities facing child welfare systems and to consider how child welfare systems can continue to improve their responsiveness to the specific needs of LBGTQ+ children, youth, and families.
In September 2018, news broke that more than 4,000 people lost health insurance as a result of Arkansas’ new Medicaid work requirement. In a press conference responding to the announcement, Governor Asa Hutchinson mused that the coverage loss could be attributable to the fact that some people “simply don’t want to be part of the
NEWARK, NJ (JANUARY 23, 2020)—New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) continues to make progress towards meeting the requirements of the Sustainability and Exit Plan (SEP) that resulted from the Charlie and Nadine H. v. Murphy class-action lawsuit. DCF’s sustained work to achieve its vision that every resident of New Jersey is safe, healthy,
With the upcoming decennial census that began earlier this month, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander groups (collectively referred to as AANHPI) are working hard to ensure that they won’t be excluded from the count.
The Center for the Study of Social Policy is pleased to feature a post by guest blogger Joan Lombardi, a national and international early childhood expert and relentless champion for innovative approaches to ensuring children’s healthy development and family well-being. Joan’s work is rooted in the understanding that children and their families thrive as part of
Reach Out and Read™ (ROR), an evidence-based approach to promoting early child development within pediatrics, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. With a vision to improve the parent-child relationship, child development and education readiness, pediatricians, Barry Zuckerman and Robert Needleman, and early education educator, Kathleen Fitzgerald-Rice, founded ROR at Boston City Hospital in 1989. Now,
To kick off the fourth-annual Youth Thrive National Convening held on November 11th to November 13th, Senior Vice President of Systems Change Susan Notkin delivered the first keynote of the 2019 conference to a room of youth activists, experts, and advocates working in child welfare, juvenile justice, youth homelessness, public and behavioral health, education, and after