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Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs provide early childhood education, social and support services to culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and seasonal farmworker families and their children. Since the last nationally representative study of MSHS was conducted almost 20 years ago, there’s an urgent need for an update on MSHS programs and centers, and the farmworker families they serve. Changes in migration patterns, immigration policies and climate conditions may be affecting these children and families in as yet unknown ways, and the MSHS program may have to adapt to their changing needs.

This brief, using data from three studies of programs with a career pathways framework, summarizes options for helping students balance school and work.

The Cambridge Housing Authority and Compass Working Capital collaborated to test the effects of automatically enrolling families in an asset-building program within two public housing developments. The goal was to answer two questions: How could asset…

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) wants to better understand the characteristics of chemicals with a range of potential health effects—including cancer, endocrine, neurological, hematological, hepatic, and renal—found on the…

Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., encompassing 64,000 square miles and covering parts of six states and Washington DC. In the 1970s, the Bay was discovered to have one of the world’s first identified marine dead zones. Poor water…

Pregnant woman and health care personnel (HCP) need flu shots, yet coverage for these groups historically has been below national targets. Without shots, the groups’ health risks soar. Pregnant women who get the flu not only can contract severe diseases…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies. 

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…