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Spotlight On: Food and Nutrition

Spotlight On: Food and Nutrition

Spotlight On
Abt Global supports work in child nutrition to improve the availability of, access to, and consumption of nutritious food in children worldwide.
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Descriptive and Analytical Career Pathways Project

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Over the last 30 years, adults in the United States with a high school education or less have experienced stagnating wages and relatively high unemployment, while those with postsecondary credentials enjoyed economic gains (Autor, 2015; Carnevale et al.,…
Abt’s Evaluations of Compass Working Capital‘s innovative model for implementing HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program

Abt’s Evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s Innovative Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program

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Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program designed to help housing assistance recipients increase their earnings and build savings to make progress toward economic security. The standard FSS program…
The Impact of 20 Years of Pollution Prevention Projects

The Impact of 20 Years of Pollution Prevention Projects

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Do pollution prevention projects reduce toxic releases? If so, by how much? Understanding their impact would provide valuable input to efforts to protect the nation’s environment. However, the sheer number — approximately 370,000 projects over 20 years —…
ELS@H: Cutting-Edge Research Is Informing the Early Education Field

ELS@H: Cutting-Edge Research Is Informing the Early Education Field

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Researchers and policymakers are trying to understand and build on the benefits of early learning programs. New research was needed to identify the short- and long-term effects of early learning experiences—from social, emotional, and cognitive, to how…
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Supporting Development, Dissemination and Implementation of the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline

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Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…