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TalkPoverty LIVE focuses on Durham's "Ban the Box" success

October 10, 2014 by stacy

SCSJ Staff Attorney Daryl Atkinson discussed critical policy issues relating to poverty in America with fellow expert panelists on Thursday’s TalkPoverty LIVE! webcast. Joining him were:

  • Jared Bernstein: Senior Fellow at the  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Biden
  • Jodie Levin-Epstein: Deputy Director of  the Center for Law and Social Policy
  • Rebecca Vallas: Moderator; Associate Director of the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress

Over the course of the program the discussants identified and expounded on three key policy solutions for increasing economic security including reforming the criminal justice system and re-entry policies so that criminal records do not commit people or their families to a life of poverty. Durham, North Carolina’s laudable “Ban the Box” policy was noted as being a successful model for expanding economic opportunity by eliminating such barriers to employment.
 

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Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconBan the Box,  criminal justice reform,  Daryl Atkinson,  Durham,  poverty,  Poverty in America,  TalkPovertyLIVE

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