Employment Discrimination Pushes Felons Onto Food Stamp Rolls, Increasing Program's Costs
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
By refusing to hire people who have been convicted of crimes, employers may be adding billions of dollars to the total cost of the country's ballooning food assistance program. Citing data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Dean Baker, co-director of the liberal Ce …