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Building Evidence on Employment Strategies (BEES)
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Evaluated innovative employment programs to boost earnings and economic security for low-income Americans, including those with substance use disorders.
Helping Promise Neighborhoods Institute Fulfill Its Promise
Project
The Promise Neighborhood program is a place-based initiative designed to improve the educational outcomes of children through linked, holistic and evidence-based cradle-to-career interventions. The program’s grantees provide a menu of services to the…
Spotlight On: Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) and Restoration Services
Spotlight On
For more than 25 years, Abt staff have been leaders and innovators in the NRDA field. We have assisted federal, state, and tribal natural resource agencies (who serve as trustees of natural resources on behalf of the public) with scientific, economic, legal, and strategic support on more than 150 NRDA cases around the country and in U.S. territories.
Supporting the Planning and Evaluation of Louisiana’s Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
Project
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…
Evaluating Data on School Turnaround AmeriCorps Efforts
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School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…
Support to the National Malaria Programme in Nigeria Phase 2 (SuNMaP2)
Project
Efficient resource mobilisation, allocation and utilisation are important to improve the health outcomes of a population and achieve universal health coverage. Currently, there is limited capacity in Nigeria to determine whether the health system uses…
VIDA Program Shows Promising Educational Results
Project
Low-income workers with only a high school education face poor and declining employment prospects. Policymakers, workforce development organizations, educators and other key stakeholders are interested in how to facilitate a better match between the…
Assessing FMLA: Results from 2018 Surveys
Publication
56% of private workers are eligible for medical leave under the FMLA, and 95 percent of worksites reported positive or neutral perceptions of the law’s effects.
Massachusetts Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) Impact Evaluation Report
Publication
COVID-19 Study of Households
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From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed data on how common COVID-19 was out in the community and how the virus transmits among members of the same household, even among asymptomatic individuals. CDC also examined differences in disease…