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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