Clinton Endorses a Proposal to Help Ex-Cons Find Work

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Source: motherjones.com





Clinton Endorses a Proposal to Help Ex-Cons Find Work
The presidential front-runner joins her Democratic rivals in backing "Ban the Box."

—By Patrick Caldwell

Tue Aug. 18, 2015 2:38 PM EDT

Brian Cahn/ZUMA

After her two leading rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination became targets of the Black Lives Matter movement, Hillary Clinton came armed with policy arguments when she met with members of the African-American activist group last week. The protesters from Massachusetts had shown up too late to disrupt the Clinton event in New Hampshire, but Clinton's campaign arranged a short meeting afterward. A video of the session appeared last night on MSNBC and subsequently on YouTube via GOOD Magazine.

Clinton encouraged the activists to present a more coherent policy prescription for helping black people, telling them, "Let's get an agenda that addresses as much of the problem as we can." The agenda she laid out included housing programs, job opportunities, and one specific policy that has become a rallying cry among social justice activists: "Ban the Box.".............

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[Kelvin Mace]

1. Step one:

Stop making harmless people "ex-cons".

[bunnies]

4. Thread win in 1.

[misterhighwasted]

2. Great Post. HRC is no slouch when it comes to getting to the source of human rights violations

This is how you mend what has been broken for so long. This is what Hillary Clinton is about. She has been doing exactly this very thing word wide within the Clinton Foundation and in using her power of position to declare that Human Rights are Equal Rights.
Listen, seek a solution and not only talk the talk but walk the walk in seeing that policies are put in place that assist in the fairest reparation of violations of Human Rights.
She is masterful in this very situation.
This is her life's work and she seeks to resolve the damning violations with all the power at her hands.
BLM will never find a better ally to right the wrongs of what they claim.

EQUAL RIGHTS are HUMAN RIGHTS
Hillary Clinton

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

5. You realize that Bernie proposed these things LONG before HRC did.

[George II]

3. Very good move....she continues to prove that she's ON THE BALL and on the right side....

...of the important issues for all people in our country, no matter who they are.