Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records

Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by earspider on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:46PM (#30392174)

You can’t just ask businesses to stop doing background checks and employ convicted felons and hope they will not embezzle funds from their new employer. The risk is too high.

You can, actually. Businesses exist at the pleasure of the state and the state can fix these problems. Unfortunately, we've been run by right-wing enablers and crooks (in the sense of unethical rule-breakers, not people with criminal records) for so long, we've forgotten that the left has been proposing workable solutions to these problems for decades.

Unless physical safety is at risk, nothing in a person's past should ever be made a legal reason to deny someone a job. If companies want to stay independent, they should be decent. Otherwise, nationalize them and run them as utilities.

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Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by dahfizz on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:19PM (#30393492)

> we've been run by right-wing enablers and crooks (in the sense of unethical rule-breakers, not people with criminal records) for so long, we've forgotten that the left has been proposing workable solutions to these problems for decades.

Okay, but we've had a Democratic Senate for 10 of the last 16 years and a democratic president 9 of the last 13 years.

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