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James A. Riccio
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Director
Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area
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James A. Riccio is Director of the Low-Wage Workers and Communities policy area at MDRC. A lead researcher on many MDRC evaluations, he specializes in studies of programs and policies for low-wage workers, welfare recipients, housing subsidy recipients, and other low-income populations. He recently directed a nine-year, six-site evaluation of an employment initiative in public housing called Jobs-Plus. Currently, he is directing several large-scale randomized control trials, including tests of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that is part of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-poverty strategy for New York City and of an employment retention and advancement initiative for welfare recipients and low-wage workers in Britain. He is also a principal adviser on a major MDRC study of community change in Chicago sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and on the Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) demonstration project, a test of work support and advancement strategies for low-wage workers in four cities. In 1996, Mr. Riccio conducted research on welfare reform in Britain as a recipient of an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy. He holds a B.A. degree from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University.
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