Center for Law and Social Policy

On June 15, Diane Harris spoke at the EARN in the South Paid Leave Working Group about her report “Inaccessible and Costly: Southern Workers’ Experiences with Paid Leave.”

By Mikayla Slaydon The Trump Administration has attacked immigrant and mixed-status families’ access to child care and early education and other public benefits programs since his first term. The first year of the second Trump Administration has put immigrants and their families at the center of heightened and intense immigration enforcement activities and attacks on program eligibility.

Extreme heat is rapidly becoming one of the most dangerous workplace hazards in the United States, yet millions of workers still lack even the most basic heat protections. Across agriculture, construction, warehousing, manufacturing, sanitation, food delivery, landscaping, and food service, workers continue laboring through dangerous temperatures without guaranteed access to water, rest, shade, cooling, or emergency response measures.

This statement can be attributed to Wendy Chun-Hoon, president and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Washington, D.C., June 10, 2026 – CLASP denounces the passage of a budget reconciliation bill that will cause immeasurable harm to families across the country.

In this episode of the Defense of Democracy podcast, host Addison K. Witt speaks with Suma Setty and Kaelin Rapport of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) about immigration policy, family separation, and the impact current enforcement practices are having on children, caregivers, and communities across the United States.

Save the Date for the next installment of CLASP’s Equity Matters series, which will focus on how racism is at the root of shaping the fraud narratives in public benefits that are so prevalent in the current national discourse.

On May 20th, Suma Setty presented on the Documenting the Impact reports to the Chicago Dual Language Learners Coalition.

On May 28th, Suma Setty presented alongside Tiffany Chang at Protecting Immigrant Families on the impacts of immigration policies on children to the Prevent Child Abuse AZ Coalition.

, and [EXCERPT] For years, researchers and advocates have documented the barriers students from immigrant families face when pursuing higher education. But the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign has introduced new challenges and fears, even for many immigrants who are legally in the United States. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Minnesota for our series Rethinking College.

By Suzanne King [EXCERPT] Unfortunately, said Teon Hayes, a senior policy analyst with the Center for Law and Social Poverty, that narrative has gained new life just as people who rely on SNAP face increasing affordability challenges. … “We are experiencing an affordability crisis,” Hayes said, “and, unfortunately, people who are relying on public benefits are hit even harder. We’re no longer talking about just the price of eggs and milk.