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New Initiatives from Philadelphia, Koch Industries, Work to Get Ex-Offenders Jobs
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2020
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2020, page 18
Filed under:
Restrictions, discrimination.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Last January, Koch Industries, through the Charles Koch Institute, announced a partnership with the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) to develop the Getting Talent Back to Work Initiative, a program that educates businesses on the benefits of hiring ex-offenders.
“We have to figure out how ...
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