On Monday, 27 senators asked President Barack Obama to take executive action to ban federal agencies and contractors from asking about applicants’ criminal histories until later in the hiring process. . . .
“The criminal record has been used to basically dehumanize a population and to treat them as less than deserving of human dignity and respect,” said Michelle Rodriguez, a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
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