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Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality

by Jonathan Haggerty
Sept 16, 2020
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issues: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Education, Housing, Jobs, Finance and Trade, Healthier Communities, Occupational Licensing, Occupational Licensing, Reentry, Thriving Families
originally published in Brennan Center
From Brennan Center:

Second, policymakers and licensing bodies should remove vague and overbroad standards, such as “good moral character,” from qualification lists.

107 Jonathan Haggerty, How Occupational Licensing Laws Harm Public Safety and the Formerly Incarcerated, R Street Institute, 2018, https://www.rstreet.org/2018/05/31/how-occupational-licensing-laws-harm-public-safety-and-the-formerly-incarcerated.

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