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Michael Miller’s union offered him a job as soon as he started his job search on Feb. 1. But he wasn’t able to accept the offer. Miller had just been released from prison and the job was farther than what he was allowed to go.
Months later, Miller continues the search for employment. People with criminal records have always had difficulty securing jobs; having to face the legal barriers and the discrimination associated with a criminal record. The economic recession has made matters even worse. Ex-convicts are often being placed at the bottom of the ever-growing pile of job applications.
According to Roberta Meyers-Peeples, executive director of the National Helping Individuals With Criminal Records Renter Through Employment Network or more commonly known as National H.I.R.E, unemployment is one of the main contributing factors to recidivism, which means that ex-convicts are now facing increasing challenges in their reentry into society.
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Michael Miller has been searching for a job since the beginning of this year. He has sent more than fifty resumes out, but hasn’t had much luck. Michael could’ve been employed the first day he started looking - his union had offered him a job. But something prevented him from doing so. Michael had just been released from prison and the job was ninety miles away – which was farther than what he was allowed to go. So Michael searched for something local.
“It was right at the beginning of the year, the inauguration, things have changed, they were sure about people were a little weary about hiring people. And then, I was fresh out of being incarcerated; I was just happy, I was walking around with a piece of paper saying I’m free! And that kind of scared people to at the same time, because I was just happy to be out, whereas therefore I should’ve been a little reserved. But that’s ok. I have...
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Michael Miller has been searching for a job since the beginning of this year. He has sent more than fifty resumes out, but hasn’t had much luck. Michael could’ve been employed the first day he started looking - his union had offered him a job. But something prevented him from doing so. Michael had just been released from prison and the job was ninety miles away – which was farther than what he was allowed to go. So Michael searched for something local.
“It was right at the beginning of the year, the inauguration, things have changed, they were sure about people were a little weary about hiring people. And then, I was fresh out of being incarcerated; I was just happy, I was walking around with a piece of paper saying I’m free! And that kind of scared people to at the same time, because I was just happy to be out, whereas therefore I should’ve been a little reserved. But that’s ok. I have...
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| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
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| Well, Well, Well | Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama | There Will Be a Light. | Virgin | 2004 | 00:29 |
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