How Employers Can Remove Barriers to Second Chances
Date: 08-09-2023
Drug convictions create a permanent record that can lead to significant barriers to opportunity, including loss of employment, housing, and vital support services.
Landing a quality job has been made a little easier for the millions of Americans who have prior drug convictions, thanks to new laws erasing certain criminal records. These states are removing restrictions that tend to sideline many talented job seekers rather than improve candidate quality.
But employers don’t need to wait for their states to enact these laws to change how they view drug convictions in their own hiring practices.
Drug convictions create a permanent record that can lead to significant barriers to opportunity, including loss of employment, housing, and vital support services. These barriers disproportionately impact communities of color that have been overpoliced and targeted throughout the war on drugs. Continue reading >>>
