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Abt Associates in the News — 1998

Welcome to the Abt Associates' In the News Section. Many members of our staff are frequently quoted as expert sources for news articles. Below are summaries of selected articles in which our experts are cited. Many of these summaries list on-line access information: access is sometimes free, but sometimes a small fee is charged once the article is archived. For more information or for a hard-copy of the original article, contact Corporate Communications at 617-520-2982, or e-mail newsroom@abtassoc.com.

In the News, December 1998

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In the News, October 1998

Gary Gaumer, Program Vice President for Healthcare and Technology, discusses Medicaid reimbursement to nursing homes. He says the evidence shows that the industry is not shortchanging patients and higher rates would not necessarily lead to better care. Hard copy available.


Vice President and Abt Associates Fellow Chris Hamilton comments on welfare reform. He contends that the food stamp red tape discourages many from participating in the program. (for a fee) by searching the news library for "Abt Associates."


According to a study authored by Peter Finn, a senior research associate at Abt Associates, the Delaware Department of Correction's four-month life skills program does much more that teach academic and applied life skills. This program combines academic, violence reduction, applied life skills, and moral reconation therapy (MRT) with the goal of reducing recidivism. As a nontraditional, cognitive-behavioral treatment that is designed to alter the way individuals act by changing the way they think, MRT uses a step-by-step process of raising the moral reasoning level of students through a series of 16 hierarchically graded moral and cognitive stages. (free).


Vice President Theodore Hammett describes a 1997 Abt Associates report that researched the issue of healthcare for HIV-positive prison inmates. He warned that the encouraging statistics might be misleading. Hard copy available.


Associate Tom Rich discusses a program that distributes crime statistics to neighborhood watch groups in Hartford, Conn. He calls the program "unprecedented in the United States." Hard copy available.

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