hiring ex-offenders

Why You Shouldn’t Overlook Hiring Ex-Offenders

In a recent online article Businesses can’t find people to hire. So why is unemployment still so high for this demographic?, NBC News reported that despite a record 6.7 million open jobs in America and the fact that nearly one-third of small businesses cannot fill open jobs, the stigma against hiring formerly incarcerated people is[…]

Brian Kelly on the Potential Expansion of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit

With 14 million unemployed people in the U.S. today, President Obama has to put something in place to stimulate job creation or else our economy will continue to stagnate and cause more people and small businesses financial hardship. We have been monitoring the job growth & unemployment numbers and I actually see the Obama administration[…]