Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alonzo Martinez reports on employment laws and trends in HR tech. Clean slate laws are reshaping employment screening by reducing ...

In these extremely politically polarized times, one of the rare issues that often garners bipartisan support is criminal justice reform. Twelve states have passed “clean slate” laws that automatically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As CEO of the Clean Slate Initiative, Sheena Meade has pushed for states to streamline the complicated process of clearing old ...

After I returned home from prison for what was my second, and last time, it would be quite some time before I could find a fairly decent job that would hire someone with a criminal record. It was 2008 ...

Just three months after announcing plans for full implementation of a 2021 law to erase misdemeanors and certain low-level felonies for more than 80,000 people near the start of this year, Connecticut ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Given the state of things, it feels good to have a trans person playing a trans character in a family comedy on our most consumed medium. Whatever else you can say about television, it does tend to ...

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