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If we truly care about American’s children, we must put them at the center and elevate and invest in concrete economic supports like guaranteed income.

Wealth tax can have big impact on child care workers’ compensation.

New funding for developing teachers provides opportunities to learn how to develop a more effective and diverse teaching workforce.

Abt Global is exhibiting and presenting at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluation24 Conference in October 2024. 

Pioneers of the research that established housing choice vouchers reflect on the program today and rental assistance for today’s housing affordability crisis.

The Australian Government recently awarded Abt Global a contract to manage a $90 million umbrella program covering half of Australia’s development assistance to Fiji.

Jeffrey Lubell — a leading authority on housing and community development — is the director of Housing and Community Initiatives at Abt Global. In that capacity, he provides policy, program and research expertise to assist policymakers in solving the nation’s pressing challenges in the areas of affordable housing, economic inclusion and asset-building, and community development.  

Researcher and policy analyst Karin Martinson has extensive knowledge of workforce development and income security policies affecting low-income populations.  With more than 30 years of experience, her research focuses on identifying effective strategies to assist disadvantaged groups seeking to gain a foothold in the labor market. The groups include low-skilled adults, cash-assistance recipients, the long-term unemployed, and those with disabilities or substance use disorders. She oversees Abt’s large portfolio of work at the U.S. Department of Labor and has worked with a wide range of federal and state agencies and philanthropic organizations.  She has led numerous research and evaluation projects, primarily in workforce and income support arena, as a project director, principal investigator, task leader, and content expert. She co-authored more than 50 research reports and briefs and contributed to published volumes on workforce policy.