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Removing Barriers to Economic Opportunity for Americans with Criminal Records Is Focus of New Multistate Initiative

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An inmate spends time with her 7-month-old granddaughter during a visit at women’s prison in California, May 2014. AP/Rich Pedroncelli

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 12, 2017.  Today, the Center for American Progress, the National Employment Law Project (NELP), and Community Legal Services (CLS) announced the launch of a three-year, multistate initiative to remove barriers to economic opportunity for Americans with criminal records and their families, building on the bipartisan momentum growing across the country for commonsense…

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