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Summer programs can be essential supports for equitable recovery and accelerating learning. Summer learning programs have the power to be a game changer for youth.

Summer programs can be essential supports for equitable recovery and accelerating learning. Summer learning programs have the power to be a game changer for youth.

Challenges in areas ranging from education to the environment, gender to governance, health to housing don’t exist in a vacuum. Each month, Abt experts from two disciplines explore ideas for tackling these challenges in our monthly podcast, The Intersect.

On a day-to-day basis, vulnerable populations suffer from inequities in health, wealth, and education.

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As housing costs have escalated and inequities persist across the country, many young people need flexible, empowerment-based investments to get stably housed and onto a path to thriving.

Mid-sized cities rely on CDBG and HOME grants to meet the needs of their citizens. Since mid-sized cities lack revenue-making mechanisms that large cities have, CDBG and HOME grants are critical to the well-being of cities and citizens.

This report offers a blueprint to state leaders looking to break the cycle of poverty for families.

Children’s school readiness as they enter kindergarten is an important predictor of their academic success and ultimately their long-term health and economic outcomes.

Since late 2017, the Urban Institute’s Housing Opportunities and Services Together team has partnered with public housing authority BangorHousing and the Boys & Girls Club of Bangor, Maine, in a formative evaluation of Families Forward, a locally designed and funded two-generation program that b