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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Projects
Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, Sally Dai, Bret Barden, Melanie Skemer, David Navarro, Chloe Anderson, Danielle Cummings, Jillian Verrillo, Yana Kusayeva, Erin Jacobs Valentine, 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.
Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Cindy Redcross, Melanie Skemer, David Navarro, Sally Dai, Bret Barden, Chloe Anderson, Danielle Cummings, Kyla Wasserman, Jillian Verrillo, Gary ReynoldsOver 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.