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Dan Bloom
Senior Vice President
Director
Policy Research and Evaluation Department

Bloom directs MDRC’s Policy, Research, and Evaluation Department, which houses the organization’s research and technical assistance activities. He previously directed the Youth Development, Criminal Justice, and Employment Policy Area, where his work focused on groups seeking to gain a foothold in the labor market, including former prisoners, disconnected young adults, low-income noncustodial parents (usually fathers), welfare recipients, individuals with disabilities, and others. He led several major projects, including the Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration, the Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration, the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe evaluation, and evaluations of three state welfare reform initiatives in the 1990s. Since joining MDRC in 1988, Bloom has coauthored more than 50 research reports and contributed articles to several published volumes on workforce and youth policy. Bloom previously worked for America Works, a for-profit company that operates job-placement programs for welfare recipients, and for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, DC-based policy analysis group. He has a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Curriculum Vitae

Projects

Products

Report

Final Results of the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project and Selected Sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project

Report

Final Results from a Test of Transitional Jobs and Preemployment Services in Philadelphia

Report

A Review of State Employment Programs Created Through the TANF Emergency Fund

Report

Three-Year Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation

Report

One-Year Findings from the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration

Report

Interim Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation

Report

Background, Program Models, and Evaluation Evidence

Report

Testing Transitional Jobs and Pre-Employment Services in Philadelphia

Report

Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program

Report

Testing Strategies to Help Former Prisoners Find and Keep Jobs and Stay Out of Prison

Report

The Employment Retention and Advancement Project

Report

Early Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program Evaluation

Report

Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College

Report

An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Other Publications

Bloom, Dan, and David Butler. 2007. “Overcoming Employment Barriers: Strategies to Help the Hard-to-Employ.” In Harry Holzer and Demetra Nightingale (eds.), Reshaping the American Workforce in a Changing Economy. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Bloom, Dan. 2010. “Programs and Policies to Assist High School Dropouts in the Transition to Adulthood.” The Future of Children 20, 1: 89-108.