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Healthcare Career Pathways Program Helps More Low-Income Latinos Earn Credentials
Project
Most healthcare jobs require postsecondary education or training. But many low-income, low-skilled Latinos face barriers to completing even short-term training for entry-level jobs due to low basic skills, limited finances, and other personal factors…
Community Focus: How the DRC Is Reducing TB
Impact Brief
The Abt-led USAID Integrated Health Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo is enhancing the ability of communities to combat tuberculosis.
Engaging Nepal’s Private Health Sector to Improve Health Outcomes
Impact Brief
Public-private collaboration and strengthening the private sector can help Nepal achieve health goals—and opportunities to do more are emerging.
BOND: Benefit Offset National Demonstration
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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…
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Analysis
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was launched to reduce carbon pollution in 10 states in the Northeast: Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
Abt Evaluates Family and Early Childhood Workforce Needs for Rhode Island’s PDG B-5
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Rhode Island’s Preschool Development Grant – Birth through Age Five (PDG) grant is being used to implement a plan to ensure all children from birth through age 5 (B-5) are supported by services and programs that will prepare them for lifelong success. To…
Evaluating Year Up’s Programs for Young Adults
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Prospects for young adults without postsecondary credentials have steadily worsened in recent decades. With few chances at well-paying jobs, millions give up on school and withdraw from the labor force. Helping low-skilled young adults access training…
Supporting Development, Dissemination and Implementation of the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline
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Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…
Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets in South Sudan
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Abt Global led the USAID- and Feed the Future-funded Food, Agribusiness, and Rural Markets (FARM) projects, which established a strong foundation for agricultural development in South Sudan’s fertile Greenbelt region. The first FARM project, which ran…