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Hire that Felon, You Racist!
September 01, 2011 posted by Steve Brownstein
A Blog by Amy Ridenour
...One the one hand, the EEOC is telling employers, "Don't worry, hire criminals, they are contributing members of society." But on the other hand, an EEOC spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal, "If ex-offenders are not given jobs the chances are that they may re-offend."
So these folks will commit more crimes if companies don't hire them, but they will be model employees if corporations do employ them? Yeah, that makes sense.
The EEOC needs to abandon this misguided guidance and let employers resume hiring based on valid business considerations.
America does not have a crisis of too few regulations. It has a crisis of too few jobs. Perhaps, if we got rid of some of the former, we could have more of the latter.
