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Daunting Employment Barriers Await Oklahoma Felons After Prison
StateImpact Oklahoma
Finding a job is key to breaking the cycle of crime and poverty, researchers and corrections official say. And a felony conviction often means inescapable employment obstacles. Felons continue to fill Oklahoma's prisons to near capacity.City subcommittee to keep working on issue of felon employment
Springfield News-Leader
The Mayor's Commission on Human Rights gave approval to a subcommittee to continue working for another year on the issue of felon employment Wednesday evening. The commission's subcommittee on felons had been meeting since February, and it presented ...Job skills: Close the gap
Savannah Morning News
Worse, JCB was hiring last year to fill jobs in its construction equipment plant in Pooler. Mr. Patterson said out of a pool of 800 applicants, only 34 people — that's about one in 24 — weren't convicted felons and had passed drug and manual ...and more » 
MLive.comWorkforce development panelists: Jobs gap mostly a skills gap
Savannah Morning News
By Larry Peterson Georgia's biggest economic issue isn'ta lack of jobs; it's a lack of skills that match jobs that are available. That's been said often recently, but speakers at a Tuesday “workforce development” panel apparently thought it was worth ...
Helping Felons Find Jobs
