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Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded

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Abt Global’s decade of evaluations of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children pilot can inform the national rollout of the pilot.
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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BOND: Benefit Offset National Demonstration

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Would national policy that pays partial disability benefits when earnings exceed the substantial gainful activity level encourage beneficiaries to work? Abt Global answered this question for the Social Security Administration (SSA) through our…
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Evaluating the Healthy Incentives Pilot Demonstration

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Most U.S. adults do not meet the Dietary Guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake, especially people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and other low-income Americans. While evidence suggests that improved diet quality…
Implementing Summer EBT: Key Considerations

Implementing Summer EBT: Key Considerations

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Summer EBT can improve food security among school-age children, and successful implementation is dependent on partnerships between agencies and retailers. 
Abt Implements SSDI Benefit Offset Demonstration

Abt Implements SSDI Benefit Offset Demonstration

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In 2015, Congress directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to test mitigating the effects of ending Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits when earnings exceed the cutoff level. The test allowed beneficiaries to keep $1 in benefits…
Developing a Successful Brand: The Summer EBT Story

Developing a Successful Brand: The Summer EBT Story

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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.
From Pilot to Implementation: Five Things to Know about Summer EBT

From Pilot to Policy: Five Things to Know about Summer EBT

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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.
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Making the Most of a Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG)

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In late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a federal Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) to expand high-quality early childhood education to more than 800 4-year-old children per year in five underserved…