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Louisiana needs to rebuild its eroding coastline, which is degrading in part because levees prevent sediment from the Mississippi River from replenishing coastal areas. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) was proposed to reconnect the river to…

This report shares encouraging final evaluation findings from the Shreveport, La., Guaranteed Income Pilot, which gave single parents $660 a month for a year.

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…

To improve the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) program’s success in helping Unemployment Insurance claimants return to work more quickly, Congress introduced requirements that RESEA programs be supported by evidence of…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program provides voucher subsidies that enables low-income households to select the type of housing and location that meets their needs. However, the HCV program…

Abt’s Sebastian Lemire and Laura Peck discuss causal mechanisms in evaluation in two differet articles published in New Directions for Evaluation.

For more than 30 years, Abt Global has conducted research on workforce development programs and their effectiveness raising participants’ skills to meet employers’ workforce needs and to increase employment and earnings prospects for workers.

Coaches implemented the Family Development and Self-Sufficiency program as planned and helped participants build self-regulation skills to get and keep jobs.

Abt’s developed a playbook that illustrates six different types of program theories to help program developers and evaluators visualize program theories.