“Today is a national day of action on this matter, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), who have specifically asked President Obama to exercise his executive authority to adopt a suite of federal “fair chance” hiring reforms for jobseekers with arrest or conviction records. This is an action that could benefit not only children with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents, but also our community-at-large.”
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