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Iowa Employers Need Help Overcoming Stigma of Hiring Ex-Offenders

By Dana Boone 2/8/08

Each day ex-offenders fill out job applications that end up in trash cans and they wait on calls for interviews that will never come. Helping employers overcome the stigma of hiring people with criminal records provides ex-offenders with the best remedy against returning to prison — employment.

That’s what an advocate from the Chicago-based Safer [...]

Criminal Records Akin to ‘Scarlet Letter’ for Employers, Expert Says

By Dana Boone 2/7/08

Providing employers with documentation that job applicants who have criminal records have turned their lives around could lessen the impact of Iowa’s projected worker shortage, cut down recidivism rates and save the state some money, said Anthony Lowery of the Chicago-based Safer Foundation.

Lowery, director of policy and advocacy at the foundation, discussed two certificate programs [...]

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