With nearly one in three Americans with a criminal record and the major labor shortage, employers must rethink how they view hiring individuals with past arrests or convictions. Doing so can help fight the statistics of a March 2018 study that demonstrated 45 percent of people released from prison had not reported earning income for the entire calendar year after their release. Work opportunities could be the obvious answer to the problem and could assist in regaining the economy’s $87 billion loss in gross domestic product due to an inability to find gainful employment.
