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Urban Manufacturing Alliance (UMA): How Employers Can Train, Hire, and Retain Formerly Incarcerated Talent (Webinar)
February 9, 2021 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
The Urban Manufacturing Alliance (UMA), in partnership with What’s Next Washington, is hosting a webinar on How Employers Can Train, Hire, and Retain Formerly Incarcerated Talent on Tuesday, February 9th, at 1:30 PM.
Today, 70 million people are living with a conviction history. By 2030, this population will climb to 100 million. Pre-Covid, the unemployment rate of this population was 27%, as compared with less than 4% overall. During the last recession, the unemployment rate for the formerly incarcerated was 60%. And if history repeats itself, post-COVID, we will see a massive spike in that number.
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