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  Dan Bloom
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    A Good Start
Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
    2008. Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo, with Jenny Au, Jedediah J. Teres, and Susan Yeh.

Freshmen in a “learning community” at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses, and earned more credits in their first semester than students in a control group. Two years later, they were also somewhat more likely to be enrolled in college.
 
    Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Working Paper
    2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, Janine Zweig (Urban Institute), and Gilda Azurdia.

After one year, CEO’s transitional jobs program generated a large but short-lived increase in employment for ex-prisoners. A subgroup of recently released prisoners showed positive effects on recidivism: They were less likely to have their parole revoked, to be convicted of a felony, and to be reincarcerated than the control group.
 
    Four Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Employment
An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
    2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, JoAnn Hsueh, Sarah Rich, and Vanessa Martin.

This demonstration is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment.
 
    The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) Program in New York City
    2007. Dan Bloom, Cynthia Miller, and Gilda Azurdia.

A random assignment study of a welfare-to-work program for recipients with work-limiting medical and mental health conditions shows that participants had increased employment and decreased welfare payments.
 
    The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Chicago ERA Site
    2006. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, and Jocelyn Page.

An evaluation of a retention and advancement program for recently employed welfare recipients shows modest increases in employment and large reductions in welfare receipt during the first two years of follow-up.
 
    Employment-Focused Programs for Ex-Prisoners
What Have We Learned, What Are We Learning, and Where Should We Go from Here?
Working Paper
    2006. Dan Bloom.

Each year, the more than 600,000 people released from prison face numerous obstacles to successful reentry into society, starting with the challenge of finding stable work. What does existing research say about the effectiveness of work-focused programs for ex-prisoners?
 
    The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Early Results from Four Sites
    2005. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Karin Martinson, and Susan Scrivener.

Early results are mixed for Employment Retention and Advancement project programs in four sites, but programs in two sites appear to help some welfare recipients work more steadily and advance to higher-paying jobs.
 
    Building Learning Communities
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration at Kingsborough Community College
    2005. Dan Bloom and Colleen Sommo.

Opening Doors Learning Communities, a program serving mostly low-income freshmen at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, improved course and test pass rates, particularly in English.
 
    WRP
Final Report on Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
    2002. Susan Scrivener, Richard Hendra, Cindy Redcross,Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter.

 
    Welfare Time Limits
State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, Barbara Fink with Diana Adams-Ciardullo.

 
    An Analysis of Vermont’s Community Service Employment Program
    2002. Leslie Sperber, Dan Bloom.

 
    New Strategies to Promote Stable Employment and Career Progression
An Introduction to the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Dan Bloom, Jacquelyn Anderson, Melissa Wavelet, Karen N. Gardiner, Michael E. Fishman.

Welfare reform has resulted in millions of low-income parents replacing the receipt of public cash assistance with income from employment. But what strategies will help the new workforce entrants find more stable jobs, advance in the labor market, and achieve long-term self-sufficiency? The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) evaluation is a comprehensive effort to explore this urgent public policy question.
 
    Jobs First
Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
    2002. Dan Bloom, Susan Scrivener, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Richard Hendra, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Johanna Walter with Wanda Vargas.

 
    Sanctions and Welfare Reform
Policy Brief
    The Brookings Institution.
2002. Dan Bloom, Don Winstead.

 
    How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income
A Synthesis of Research
    2001. Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos.

This monograph synthesizes the results of rigorous studies of 29 welfare reform initiatives evaluated by MDRC over the past 15 years. It examines how three policies that form the core of most state's current welfare programs — mandatory employment services, earnings supplements, and time limits on welfare receipt — affect employment, welfare receipt, and income.
 
    Three-Year Impacts of Connecticut’s Jobs First Welfare Reform Initiative
    2001. Richard Hendra, Charles Michalopoulos, Dan Bloom.

 
    The Family Transition Program
Final Report on Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
    2000. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, David Seith, Johanna Walter.

 
    Connecticut's Jobs First Program
An Analysis of Welfare Leavers
    2000. Laura Melton, Dan Bloom.

 
    Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
Key Findings from the Forty-Two-Month Client Survey
    2000. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Charles Michalopoulos.

 
    Jobs First
Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
    2000. Dan Bloom, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter.

 
    The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Three-Year Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
    1999. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.

 
    Welfare Time Limits
An Interim Report Card
    1999. Dan Bloom.

 
    Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Six-Month Survey Results
    1999. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom.

 
    WRP
Implementation and Early Impacts of Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
    1998. Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Patricia Auspos.

 
    Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Three-Month Survey Results
    1998. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Johanna Walter.

 
    The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
    1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.

 
    Jobs First
Early Implementation of Connecticut's Welfare's Reform Initiative
    1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Andes, Claudia Nicholson.

 
    The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Early Impacts of Florida's Time-Limited Welfare Program
    1997. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Robin Rogers-Dillon.

 
    The View From the Field
As Time Limits Approach, Welfare Recipients and Staff Talk About Their Attitudes and Expectations
    1997. Amy Brown, Dan Bloom, David Butler.

 
    After AFDC
Welfare-to-Work Choices and Challenges for States
    1997. Dan Bloom.

 
    Early Data on the Implementation of Connecticut's Jobs First Program
    1997. Mary Andes, Dan Bloom, Claudia Nicholson.

 
    Implementing Time-Limited Welfare
Early Experiences in Three States
    1995. Dan Bloom, David Butler.

 
    The Family Transition Program
An Early Implementation Report on Florida's Time-Limited Welfare Initiative
    1995. Dan Bloom.

 
    Matching Opportunities to Obligations
Lessons for Child Support Reform from the Parents' Fair Share Pilot Phase
    1994. Dan Bloom, Kay Sherwood.

 
    Child Support Enforcement
A Case Study
    1993. Dan Bloom with Bridget Dixon.

 
    LEAP
Interim Findings on a Welfare Initiative to Improve School Attendance Among Teenage Parents
    1993. Dan Bloom, Veronica Fellerath, David Long, Robert G. Wood.

 
    LEAP
Implementing a Welfare Initiative to Improve School Attendance Among Teenage Parents
    1991. Dan Bloom, Hilary Kopp, David Long, Denise Polit.

 
 



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