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Bipartisan momentum for clean slate and fair chance licensing policies which remove barriers to economic opportunity for people facing the stigma of a criminal record has grown significantly in the states in recent years.
Washington, D.C. — A new report from the Center for American Progress, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the National Employment Law Project examines recent momentum as well as lessons learned from a wave of clean slate and fair chance licensing reforms in states around the country. Following decades of overcriminalization, 1 in 3 American adults now […]