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Part 2 of the AHAR showed that overall sheltered homelessness was down while introducing new elements to the data collection.

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…

Abt draws upon years of national housing experience and expertise to design solutions tailored for New York City.

The final report on Abt’s evaluation of HUD’s First-Time Homebuyer Education and Counseling Demonstration found benefits for women and younger buyers.

The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…

An important knowledge gap exists with respect to the role that housing assistance plays in promoting economic self-sufficiency among welfare recipients.  To fill this gap, Congress appropriated funds for Section 8 tenant-based assistance to help…

In 2010, Hennepin County, Minn., was one of 16 grantees awarded funds by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to replicate with fidelity and rigorously evaluate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. Abt Global conducted a…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to determine if teen pregnancy prevention programs with limited prior evidence of effectiveness can work when replicated with different populations and in different settings. HHS contracted with…

VIDA had a positive effect on educational outcomes but had no detectable effect on earnings and few effects on employment or other economic outcomes.