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Linda C. Rosenberg
Senior Researcher
Linda Rosenberg is a senior researcher with 20 years of experience conducting qualitative research of programs in domestic policy areas, including education, labor, and welfare.
Rosenberg has led the design, data collection, and analyses of program implementation for numerous studies. In the education field, she currently leads Mathematica’s work for the Study of School Turnaround for the U.S. Department of Education (ED ) Institute of Education Sciences. In this study, Mathematica is contributing to the design and leading case studies of study schools. She also contributed to the design and analysis of the implementation of grants under the study of the Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program for ED.
Rosenberg is currently the deputy project director on the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs, conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), in which she contributes to the design and implementation of this evaluation that studies the impact of WIA services. Also for DOL, she directs the Evaluation of 2010 Summer Subsidized Employment Activities for Youth Funded by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund, a process study exploring how 10 local workforce investment areas used TANF funds to support their summer programs.
For the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she directed a study team in the design of and data collection for case studies and a 50-state survey of TANF diversion practices, which documented states’ strategies to assist and/or divert applicants for TANF. As principal investigator for the Work First New Jersey Evaluation, she designed and led the implementation study of New Jersey’s welfare initiative and wrote case studies and reports on TANF clients and their access to services in New Jersey communities.
Rosenberg holds an M.P.A. in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
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- Qualitative research of programs in domestic policy areas, including education, labor, and welfare
- Study of Schools Targeted for Improvement Using Title I Section 1003(G) Funds Provided Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
- Evaluation of the Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
- Evaluation of the Youth Program Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- "Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative" (February 2010)
- "Understanding Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Caseloads After Passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005" (September 2009)
- "A Study of States' TANF Diversion Programs" (December 2008)