About MDRC
Verrillo serves as a project manager for reports within MDRC’s Health and Barriers to Employment policy area. She is currently working on a variety of studies connected to the Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration and the Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration, two national evaluations designed to assess subsidized employment strategies for low-income populations. Verrillo has over a decade of experience in project management and editing; before joining MDRC, she worked as an editor at HarperCollins Publishers and Random House. She holds a BA in English and Media Arts and Design from James Madison University.
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MDRC Publications
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Other Publications
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Projects
Dina A. R. Israel, Michelle S. Manno, Dan Bloom, JoAnn Hsueh, Rekha Balu, Charles Michalopoulos, Virginia Knox, Erika Lundquist, Electra Small, Rebecca Behrmann, Samantha Wulfsohn, Ann Bickerton, Douglas Phillips, Patrizia Mancini, Emily Brennan, Jillian Verrillo, Bret BardenFathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, but some fathers face personal or societal barriers to positive involvement with their children — such as low levels of education, stigma from criminal records, declining wages for low-skilled men, or family instability. Responsible Fatherhood programs aim to improve the well-being of low-income...
Dan Bloom, Sally Dai, Bret Barden, Melanie Skemer, David Navarro, Danielle Cummings, Jillian Verrillo, Yana Kusayeva, Gary ReynoldsIn the past three decades, broad economic shifts have sharply decreased the availability of good jobs for workers without postsecondary education. Disadvantaged men have been particularly hard hit by these trends. Many of these men become enmeshed in the criminal justice and child support enforcement systems, which are increasingly focusing on how to help their “...
Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Melanie Skemer, David Navarro, Sally Dai, Bret Barden, Danielle Cummings, Kyla Wasserman, Jillian Verrillo, Gary Reynolds, Chloe Anderson GolubOver the past 80 years, a variety of subsidized employment strategies have been used for two main purposes: (1) to provide work-based income support for people who are not able to find regular, unsubsidized jobs; and (2) to improve the employability of disadvantaged groups. Programs with the first goal have typically emerged during periods of sustained high...