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How Clean Slate Laws Create Better Cities
April 28, 2021
One in three Americans has some type of criminal record, which can create lifelong barriers to housing, employment, education and other opportunities for them and for their families. Clean Slate laws that automatically expunge records for thousands of people can double someone’s wages. The Clean Slate Initiative is a bipartisan coalition that is advancing these policies nationwide.
Over the past three years, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Utah have passed Clean Slate laws to open opportunities for millions a change that has strengthened COVID-19 pandemic economic recovery and created a more efficient government at the same time. How can cities help returning citizens get jobs? In Detroit, helping someone clear their criminal record is four times as effective as traditional job training.
How Clean Slate Laws Create Better Cities
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Inside a National Initiative to Help Wipe Past Convictions “Clean”
The initiative, which was inspired by the successful 2018 campaign to pass the nation’s first Clean Slate law in Pennsylvania [2], now has a national steering committee that includes the Center for American Progress, R Street and Code for America.
The organization has also attracted big-name funders, including Arnold Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In 2019 alone, they committed $30 million to the effort. The New Venture Fund is acting as the initiative’s fiduciary.
Sheena Meade was the first person hired by the initiative. She helped restore voting rights to more than 1.4 million Florida residents with 2018’s Amendment 4, and has since worked for Galaxy Gives as its criminal justice program officer. She now serves as Clean Slate’s managing director.
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