Today's moderator: Rick Badie
Rick Badie joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as an education reporter in 1997. A South Georgia native, he's covered the region's immigrant communities, was a feature obituary writer and opinion columnist for the AJC's Gwinnett edition.
Jobs are scarce, but likely even scarcer for those formerly incarcerated. Employers often balk at such hires; prisoners generally lack skills to land jobs with decent pay. Today, a director for the Urban Institute looks at their re-entry to the workplace through the lens of Georgia and elsewhere. I write about a DeKalb County nonprofit that hopes to teach "hard-to-place" individuals the art of auto detailing.
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Today's columnists:
- Pathway to jobs tricky by Nancy G. La Vigne
- Job training for ex-convicts by Rick Badie
- Prevent cruel deaths of children by Mary Margaret Oliver
