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TexasTowelie

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Mon Aug 24, 2015, 02:30 AM Aug 2015

An impediment to employment -- ban the box [View all]

ALBUQUERQUE -- Frank Dominguez, 54, has spent nearly half of his life in and out of prisons for various drug-related offenses.

A native of Carlsbad, he had little luck finding a job.

“When you live in a small town, everybody knows everybody, and people don’t want to hire you because they think you’re the same and are never going to change,” he said.

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From Dominguez’s point of view, part of the problem for him and other ex-cons is that private sector job applications nearly always have a box to check if the applicant ever has been arrested and convicted of a felony or has been incarcerated. Checking that box often means the application will be dismissed outright.

That’s why a “ban the box” campaign has been gaining momentum nationally in recent years.

Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/632976/biz/an-impediment-to-employment.html

Cross-posted in Omaha Steve's Labor Group.

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It's not about the nail...err...felony Android3.14 Aug 2015 #1
What about background checks? left-of-center2012 Aug 2015 #2
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