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This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Abt Global is bringing clients the benefits of AI pragmatically, effectively, and safely.

Read more about how branding amplified the story of our evaluation work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Electronic Benefit Program demonstration project.

Abt offers three tips to help states set up a quality rating system for their Medicaid and CHIP managed care programs.

Getting RSV, COVID-19, and flu vaccinations is the best way to protect yourself and mitigate the odds of an epidemic of all three respiratory diseases at the same time.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.

A new Abt-developed webtool supports analysis of criminal justice expenditures and employment.

Some features of Florida’s new E-Verify law could put workers at greater risk for labor trafficking and exploitation.

Experts dive into what readers should know about the recent malaria outbreak in the U.S., such as symptoms to monitor and current surveillance practices in place for infectious disease crises.