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Criminal Background Checks: Impact on Employment and Recidivism

This report, from Urban Institute, explores the two main types of criminal background checks used by employers in the United States: those requiring j...

Background Checks: Tips for Job Applicants and Employees

This guide from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) explains the legal rights of job applicants and employees regarding background chec...
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The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies

This report, from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), builds off of prior CEPR research examining the population of former prisoners a...

The Consideration of Criminal Records in Hiring Decisions

This factsheet, produced by the CSG Justice Center’s National Reentry Resource Center in partnership with the National Employment Law Project, is de...

Occupational Licensing: A Framework For Policymakers

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. This report pre...

Directive (DIR) 2013-02

This resource is part of The Federal Interagency Reentry Council's A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future. The purpose...

"Ban the Box" Measures Help High Crime Neighborhoods

Many localities have in recent years regulated the use of questions about criminal history in hiring, or “banned the box.” This publication, from AEI,...

Reentry Week Programs for Formerly Incarcerated

New Haven Register By Clare Dignan About 100 people come out of prison to return home to the city every month. This week begins an awareness cam...

April 25, 2023

State Reentry Coordinator's College Session on Economic Mobility

This third session of the State Reentry Coordinator’s College focused on economic mobility and addressed strategies to improve access to workforce dev...

June 17, 2019

Facts and Myths: Health Care Employment Opportunities for People with Criminal Records

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice AssistanceDownload a PDF o...

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