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Obama to Announce Steps to Help Ex-Prisoners (criminals) Find Jobs and Housing
New York Times ^ | November 2, 2015 | By Peter Baker

Posted on 11/02/2015 12:10:23 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce a series of small initiatives on Monday intended to make it easier for former prisoners to find jobs and live in subsidized housing, part of his broader drive to remake the criminal justice system.

In a trip to Newark, Mr. Obama will visit a residential drug-treatment center, Integrity House, to highlight efforts to ease the re-entry of offenders leaving prison. He will then convene a round-table discussion at the Newark campus of Rutgers University with Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Mayor Ras J. Baraka of Newark. . .

. . .Mr. Obama will direct the federal Office of Personnel Management to delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring process for federal jobs, so that applicants are not rejected before having a chance to impress. Most federal agencies have already taken this step, but a White House statement said it would help ensure that former prisoners “receive a fair opportunity to compete for federal employment.”

Mr. Obama will not “ban the box” altogether, to use the language of activists who want the federal government and private employers to eliminate the box on job applications asking if a prospective employee has been convicted of a crime. But Mr. Obama has called on Congress to pass legislation doing so. . .

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1 posted on 11/02/2015 12:10:23 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Let me guess....illegals and criminals will get jobs before the legal, unemployed?????


2 posted on 11/02/2015 12:12:15 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Meaning that law abiding citizens who are not felons and have families are not helped.


3 posted on 11/02/2015 12:12:18 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Bring the “hood” to your neighborhood...
4 posted on 11/02/2015 12:14:00 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Louisiana Weasel - GOPe Plan C or make that D)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just do a covert background check including fingerprints on everyone who is in the final stages of being hired. That will solve the problem.


5 posted on 11/02/2015 12:17:30 PM PST by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: hsmomx3

With a miserable economy and the reluctance of many employers to hire sociopaths Obama will find good federal jobs for the 6,000 “misunderstood.”


6 posted on 11/02/2015 12:18:20 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

And, of course, these convicted felons will be allowed to vote again for Democrats in future elections.


7 posted on 11/02/2015 12:18:56 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SkyDancer

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.


8 posted on 11/02/2015 12:19:48 PM PST by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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To: hsmomx3

Yep. “Does your company employ at least 21% felons, 22% blacks, and 89% Democrats??”


9 posted on 11/02/2015 12:22:30 PM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Keep in mind he also wants to force more affluent areas to build HUD housing. In other words, he is importing criminals to your area.


10 posted on 11/02/2015 12:22:50 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements that harm them; i.e. criminals”- F. Nietzsche


11 posted on 11/02/2015 12:23:17 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So.. in addition to illegals, convicted felons will become a protected class?


12 posted on 11/02/2015 12:25:12 PM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Doing what the Mob has done for 100 plus years. Now having moved part of their op into the Alinsky WH admin operation. The real outside mob will not like this.


13 posted on 11/02/2015 12:25:28 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: hsmomx3

Yes, as he clearly stated in his book, he picks the most radical to side with.

Most all of us saw this coming 7 years ago.


14 posted on 11/02/2015 12:26:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

some jobs are such that criminal background checks are necessary

but then again,

bringing more criminals into our federal government is consistent with the great old Danish wisdom teaching that
‘a fish rots from its head...’


15 posted on 11/02/2015 12:27:10 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: misanthrope

As he said. But they’d be a bunch of city guys who’ve no idea of what they’d be facing.


16 posted on 11/02/2015 12:27:26 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Some Republican districts need more democrat voters.


17 posted on 11/02/2015 12:30:41 PM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They could sell crack in his neighborhood.


18 posted on 11/02/2015 12:30:50 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: DJ Taylor

I’m sure that is their goal. I wonder if Obie can do that as part of executive action or some kind of Clemency? Like releasing all black inmates over unjust laws and criminal justice system and allowing them to vote?


19 posted on 11/02/2015 12:31:15 PM PST by wattsgnu
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Also help finding the voting booth(s), I’m sure.


20 posted on 11/02/2015 12:32:36 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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