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This brief provides early insights from parents into how guaranteed income pilot programs improving outcomes for their families.

This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Read more about how branding amplified the story of our evaluation work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Electronic Benefit Program demonstration project.

Abt was part of a team that examined how housing affordability affects renters, and the tactics that people use to survive.

Abt’s René Nutter talks with Tyra Shackleford, Chickasaw Nation’s Summer EBT Manager, about what it takes for a successful Summer EBT implementation.

States can roll out summer grocery programs in 2024 for students eligible for subsidized school lunches, and here are five things states need to know.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.

Public charter schools may operate independently of local district requirements, but a systems-thinking approach to leadership development still makes sense.

This study on homeless encampments in Los Angeles identifies the challenges, the responses, and the policies at the county and city levels.