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These briefs explore the policy implications of Abt’s evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s financial capability model of the Family Self-Sufficiency program.

Power plants’ cooling systems often are located along coastal waterways and use large amounts of water from oceans, bays and estuaries. As millions of tiny aquatic organisms in the water such as fish eggs and larvae pass through the power plant, the heat…

Be it outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic—human or zoonotic—the goal is to get reliable information on infectious diseases, quickly. Abt experts Laura Edwards and Sung-Woo Cho discuss strategies for harnessing machine learning and data visualization to provide actionable information—at scale—that can help stem a health crisis.

For far too long, the child welfare system has been designed to be reactive, where caseworkers respond after child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences have occurred, with the primary intervention being removal from the home. For young…

Abt’s Natalie Matthews and Terri Mota connect the dots between homelessness and public health and discuss how we can do more moving forward in this podcast.

We consistently undervalue nature and its benefits; here are five ways we can address underlying governance issues to help ensure nature is better protected.

The Ethiopian private health sector is growing in size and scope. Over one-third of Ethiopian health expenditures go to private providers but the quality and availability of private providers’ priority health services is uneven. The government’s plans…

Abt and MDRC evaluated the Cascades College and Career Academy Job Corps pilot demonstration, which provided academic and career technical training.