Under-compensation and a lack of benefits leave more than 1 in 4 child care workers relying on Medicaid for health coverage, but H.R. 1's Medicaid cuts mean their access is at risk. New report: @georgetownccf.bsky.social, @clasp.org, @NAEYC, @NAFFC. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/04/21/m...

Medicaid is a Critical Support for the Early Childhood Education Workforce

[Editor’s Note: Last Updated July 22, 2026] In Partnership with: Medicaid is an important source of health coverage for the early childhood education professionals who support child development and ca...

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So glad that @sumasetty.bsky.social was able to join this briefing on such an important issue.

Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 2w ago

At @firstfocus.bsky.social, we are pleased to host an important Capitol briefing, Collateral Damage: show H.R. 1’s “Adult” Medicaid Cuts Are Impacting Children and Families One Year In, with our partners at @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @clasp.org @familiesusa.bsky.social @georgetownccf.bsky.social.

[1] Congress needs to act immediately to protect TPS holders & their families from the devastating consequences of detention, deportation, and family separation. The impacts are likely to affect an est. 400,000 children of TPS-eligible parents–with over a 1/4 of children under 5.

[1] The Trump Administration has created a nationwide crisis for children by un-documenting, arresting, detaining, and deporting their parents, and ongoing attacks on TPS and DACA have created instability for families. A discharge petition can change that. This discharge petition can change that.

In our SPARK blog series, Kaelin Rapport and Suma Setty, MPH of the @clasp.org, share what their new report revealed about the emotional and economic toll of immigration actions on families with young children, and what one Texas community-based organization did about it.

Honored to talk to Jonathan Cohn about another planned Trump admin attack on children, immigrant families, children with disabilities, & others. The work ahead: defeat the attacks so all kids can thrive. @citizencohn.bsky.social @clasp.org @fcd-us.bsky.social . open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Exclusive: Trump Preparing a New Attack on Head Start

The administration is considering a proposal to gut the program’s instructional standards while adding new restrictions tied to immigration.

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We commend Rep. Pramila Jayapal for introducing Orlin's Law yesterday. The critical bill is named for Orlin Hernandez Reyes, a 3-year-old who tragically died after his mother was wrongfully deported without him despite her wishes to bring him with her. jayapal.house.gov/2026/07/16/j...

Jayapal Introduces Orlin’s Law Calling for the Protection of Children of Immigrants - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, is introducing Orlin’s Law, legislation named f...

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@wendydcervantes.bsky.social: When parents fear that seeking health care, nutrition assistance, or other supports could jeopardize their family’s future, many will simply go without. The result is that children don't get what they need to grow, learn, and thrive. www.clasp.org/press-room/p...

New DHS Public Charge Policy Will Increase Fear and Harm Children’s Health and Well-being | CLASP

By removing those protections, the final rule creates confusion and uncertainty that will most likely discourage many immigrant families from seeking health care, nutrition assistance, housing support...

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CLASP's Teon Hayes says SNAP's enrollment decline is "not because people no longer need assistance or because food insecurity has disappeared. Rather, it reflects the growing barriers families are facing in accessing a program designed to support them.” buckscountybeacon.com/2026/07/penn...

Pennsylvania Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Fund SNAP Benefits to Help Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy - Bucks County Beacon

According to rule changes from President Trump and Republicans' “big beautiful bill”, each state’s SNAP “error rate” will bring severe financial consequences.

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Immigration policies that kill parents & breadwinners are failed policies. Congress must defund ICE and get their agents out of our communities. Read our full statement at tinyurl.com/ctan-failed-policies. #AllChildrenBelong #ICEOut

The far-reaching consequences of H.R. 1, the 2025 budget reconciliation bill, are already being felt by millions. Here's our statement explaining the harms we've seen so far in the first year since the bill's enactment. www.clasp.org/press-room/p...

One Year into H.R. 1: Funding for Health Care and Nutrition Programs Slashed While Immigration Enforcement Balloons, Harming Millions | CLASP

July 4th will mark one year since Congress passed and Donald Trump signed into law the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025, which included the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in the programs’ historie...

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Early childhood programs should be accessible to all who need them. @clasp.org's updated resource about current immigrant eligibility for Head Start and child care assistance helps explain eligibility rules, as attacks on immigrant communities rise. www.clasp.org/blog/underst...

Understanding Immigrant Eligibility for Child Care and Early Education Programs | CLASP

This updated resource is more essential than ever, as children disappear from classrooms and early education programs and all families, especially immigrant families, too often encounter mountains of ...

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@wendydcervantes.bsky.social in @the74.bsky.social: "If the administration had been allowed to restrict birthright citizenship, it would have been yet another way to expand their deportation machine, adding newborns to the list of deportation targets." www.the74million.org/article/supr...

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

The ruling reaffirms that babies born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents’ status, follows other wins for Trump on immigration.

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@wendydcervantes.bsky.social on today's SCOTUS decision, "Birthright citizenship has helped ensure that children begin life on equal footing, regardless of their parents’ immigration status." www.clasp.org/press-room/p...

Supreme Court Affirms a Fundamental Constitutional Protection for Our Nation’s Children | CLASP

By striking down Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the Court has protected the longstanding principle that children born in this country are entitled to the rights and protections of ...

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Last week, @clasp.org's @shiraws.bsky.social and @scschmit.bsky.social joined @childcareforeveryfamily.org’s child care advocates on the Hill to push for stronger federal ECE investment and policy. Doubling the current investment could result in 870,000+ additional children gaining access to #CCDBG.

The current Congress and administration are dismantling health care instead of solving our nation's health care crisis. CLASP will continue to work with partners to elevate the need for true solutions that live up to our belief that health care is a basic human right. www.clasp.org/blog/health-...

Health Care Has Been Under a Wholesale Attack During the Trump Administration | CLASP

Republicans’ assault on health care goes far beyond the $1 trillion they cut from Medicaid and ACA last year as part of H.R.1.

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The new LIFT the BAR Act would to lower barriers to health and economic security for millions of lawfully present immigrants and U.S. citizens in immigrant families. Learn more about this urgent and important legislation and take action: pifcoalition.org/resources/pr....

Paid leave has reached a national tipping point: advocates have secured meaningful victories at the local, state, and federal levels across 42 states and the District of Columbia, even without a permanent national paid leave program. www.clasp.org/publications...

Onward and Upward: Paid Leave Victories from 2020 to Today | CLASP

Onward and Upward documents the growth of paid family and medical leave advocacy and policy wins since the Build Back Better negotiations in 2020. The report argues that paid leave has reached a natio...

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Webinar happening this Thursday on 6/25 at 1PM Et! See you there. RSVP and learn more: clasp.org/events/equit...

We’ll be in court today to block the Trump administration's attempts to seize the medical records of trans youth who've accessed gender-affirming care in New York City. Trans youth and their families have a right to privacy — we're demanding they be left alone.

[1] Representing the #AllChildrenBelong campaign, @clasp.org, @theyoungcenter.bsky.social, & @letkidsthrive.bsky.social were honored to be a part of the Congressional Dads Caucus' week of action to elevate the urgency of supporting kids in immigrant families.

In honor of #Juneteenth, this brief looks at the history of agricultural injustice experienced by Black and immigrant farm workers and offers bold policy ideas that center the dignity, equity, and value of all historically marginalized communities: www.clasp.org/publications...

Land, Labor, Liberation: A Juneteenth Reflection on Racism in American Agriculture | CLASP

By Parker Gilkesson Davis| In honor of the Juneteenth holiday, this brief looks at the history of agricultural injustice experienced by Black and immigrant farm workers and offers bold policy ideas th...

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LGBTQIA+ households face a huge wage gap, with losses even higher for transgender households and households of color. #LGBTQIAEqualPay Awareness Day https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-2024-lgbtqi-wage-gap/

Policy attacks on transgender individuals have been enacted under the guise of “protecting women,” but this administration, which has long been plagued by accusations of sexual assault and misconduct, does not truly care about women’s health or safety. www.clasp.org/blog/fight-t... #PrideMonth

The Fight for Trans Rights is the Fight for Everyone’s Rights | CLASP

Anti-trans policies harm transgender people, undermine women’s rights, restrict public life and work, and threaten broader civil rights for everyone.

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On June 15th, we celebrated the 14th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (#DACA) program, the program that has provided young people who came to the U.S. as children protection from deportation and work permits.

Take action at the following link: www.mobilize.us/tirrc/event/...

Take Action to Protect Life-Saving Healthcare for Immigrant Children · TIRRC

## All children, regardless of the color of their skin, where they were born, or how much money their parents make, deserve access to lifesaving healthcare. But now the Tennessee Department of Health...

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Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Heads up TN: The Dept of Health is threatening to take healthcare from critically ill kids based on where they came from. They are trying to make families face the choice: deport or die. Tell Gov. Bill Lee: You hold kids' lives in your hands. Let Children Live.

Extreme heat is one of the nation's deadliest workplace hazards. Yet, the U.S. still has no permanent federal heat standard. A proposed rule that could've delivered sweeping protections is now stalled, even as workers keep getting injured and killed on the job.

New research on young children affected by the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

The Minneapolis immigration crackdown ended months ago. For children, trauma remains

Social workers help children at Valley View Elementary outside Minneapolis cope with trauma from the immigration crackdown.

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[3] As advocates, we say no more family separations. We will continue to fight for family unity and a future where all children can be happy and free.

[2] Through the experiences of Ederson Galicia Alva and his family, it is clear the Trump Administration is ignoring legal protections meant to keep families together and seeks to further harm children, families, and communities.