Vice Partners With Center for Employment Opportunities
A positive for the formerly incarnated.
Vice and the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)— a nonprofit that provides employment opportunities for ex-convicts—are joining forces. Together, Vice and CEO plan to encourage companies to hire more people with criminal records.
“There are lots of reasons for this [businesses not hiring the formerly incarnated], but the biggest challenge is that companies aren’t usually willing to take a chance on a person who has made a mistake, or people who have been caught up in the system,” said Vice co-founder Shane Smith, in a statement.
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