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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility. Abt has been brought on board as a thought partner to…

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…

SSA administers two of the nation’s largest entitlement programs: Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSA’s Office of Retirement and Disability Policy needs short-term research and evaluation…

Although the United States has made great progress in reducing teen pregnancy, teen mothers are still much more common than in other western industrialized nations. In addition, there are disparities in teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection …

A major shift has occurred over the past two decades in public policies and attitudes toward marijuana use. Between 1996 and 2021, 37 states passed laws legalizing the medical use of marijuana, and 18 states legalized recreational use. However, marijuana…

The Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) oversees the four Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant programs: State Formula PREP, Competitive PREP, Personal Responsibility Education –…

Mental health conditions are a widespread public health challenge in New York City. To fill critical gaps in mental health services, the city launched ThriveNYC. Part of that effort is NYC Well, a free and confidential service for individuals seeking…

Roughly two-thirds of students take loans to pay for college, and many have difficulty repaying them; more than 500,000 students default on their loans each year. To reduce repayment challenges and in response to a presidential directive to help…

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that are associated with health detriments. Given the large scope of a planned multi-site study (MSS) and the complexity of the data to be collected, the Agency for Toxic…

The level of understanding regarding the progress being made by students in secondary school can vary from school to school and state to state. In order to collect and present data trends across Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,…