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This webinar from The Aspen Institute explores the challenges and innovative solutions for formerly incarcerated individuals seeking quality employment. Discover how approximately 77 million Americans (1 in 3 adults) have a criminal record and the significant barriers they face when returning to the workforce. Learn about the discrimination, occupational licensing restrictions, debt burdens, punitive supervision policies, and housing challenges that often force returning citizens into exploitative, low-paying jobs. Examine promising nationwide initiatives to transform the re-entry system, including record expungement laws, legal actions against discrimination, and growing coalitions of employers and union leaders committed to providing meaningful second chances. As part of the series "Work Behind and Beyond Bars: Improving Job Quality During and After Incarceration," this 85-minute discussion highlights practical approaches to creating pathways to good jobs for people after incarceration.
